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Ma Tau Chung
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English
Etymology
From en yue 馬頭涌//.
Proper noun
1
en area region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong.
en 1965 Gwenneth Stokes The Last Days of the Sung Hong Kong in History https://archive.org/details/hongkonginhistor00stok/ Hong Kong Government Printer 31282714 21 https://archive.org/details/hongkonginhistor00stok/page/21/ At last Ti Cheng and Ti Ping and their soldiers and ministers reached Mirs Bay, just east of Hong Kong. From there they moved to Lantao and a little later to Ma Tau Chung in Kowloon. At Ma Tau Chung a palace was built for the young Emperor Ti Cheng. On a nearby hill the Emperor and his brother used to shelter in the shade of a great rock.
en 1991 Sally Rodwell A Flourishing Trading Post Historic Hong Kong: A Visitor's Guide https://archive.org/details/historichongkong0000rodw/ Hong Kong Odyssey Guides 962-217-212-1 26183295 104 https://archive.org/details/historichongkong0000rodw/page/104/ In the following months the prisoners were reorganised so that the officers were housed at Argyle Street, the other ranks at Sham Shui Po and the Indians at Ma Tau Chung.
en 29 October 1994 Death of a spy ring w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240305111405/https://www.scmp.com/article/93926/death-spy-ring March 05, 2024 https://www.scmp.com/article/93926/death-spy-ring 1563-9371 648902513 Latest Soon the link to the Indian prison camp at Ma Tau Chung was exposed, then the drivers to the other camps were hauled in for questioning.
Translations
area of Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 馬頭涌
Mandarin: cmn 馬頭涌
Further reading
Ma Tau Chung