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Kowloon Tsai
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English
Etymology
From en yue 九龍仔.
Proper noun
Kowloon Tsai
en area area/Kowloon Tong district/Kowloon City region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong.
en April 30, 1952 Two Children Killed In Last Night's Kowloon Tsai Fire w:The China Mail 35189 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19520430 12488501 1 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19520430 6 Two children, brother and sister, died in the Kowloon Tsai fire last night.
en 1983 James Hayes The Cheung Sha Wan Villages The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes https://archive.org/details/ruralcommunities0000haye/ Hong Kong w:Oxford University Press 0195815041 11382940 85 https://archive.org/details/ruralcommunities0000haye/page/85/ The So Uk people were said to be related to the So families of Kowloon Tsai, which may explain why they alone among the Cheung Sha Wan villages were involved.
en 2007 Lisa Odham Stokes Yonghua Film Company Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema https://archive.org/details/historical-dictionary-of-hong-kong-cinema/ w:Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-5520-5 2006019322 70114565 536 https://archive.org/details/historical-dictionary-of-hong-kong-cinema/page/536/ Yonghua was founded in 1947 by Li Zuyong with assistance from Zhang Shankun to make Mandarin films in Hong Kong and was its first large-scale private enterprise film company; after creative differences about running the company, Zhang left in 1948; that same year, the company organized an artistic committee. The studio, first located at Kowloon Tsai, was managed by Lu Yuanliang, and was the largest and most modernized, state-of-the-art, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
en 05 November 2018 Christopher DeWolf Kowloon Tong history: Hong Kong’s original garden city and its unusual path w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20181121043948/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2171675/kowloon-tong-history-hong-kongs-original-garden-city-and November 21, 2018 https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2171675/kowloon-tong-history-hong-kongs-original-garden-city-and 1563-9371 648902513 Travel & Leisure https://archive.ph/McQQt Yau Yat Chuen’s stylish villas overlooked the shacks of Tai Hang Tung; to the east, a squatter camp in Kowloon Tsai was described as “intolerable” by British Labour Party MPs who visited in 1969. Shanty towns were prone to fire and both Kowloon Tsai and Tai Hang Tung eventually burned to the ground, their residents given shelter in resettlement estates.
en 27 AUGUST 2023 Diana Pang Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names https://archive.ph/ZsfvG 27 August 2023 https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/27/foreign-influence-part-3-around-the-world-in-a-day-with-hong-kongs-street-names/ w:Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong When the Hong Kong government developed the then-barren area of Kowloon Tsai into a residential area in the early 1950s, the streets were also named after English counties, such as Oxford Road (zh 牛津道), Cambridge Road (zh 劍橋道), and Durham Road (zh 對衡道).
Synonyms
obsolete en Kau Lung Tsai, en small Kowloon
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 九龍仔
Polish: pl Koulun Tsai m-in
Further reading
Kowloon Tsai