Kowloon City

English Etymology en zh 九龍城 - Kowloon City. Proper noun Kowloon City en area district/Kowloon City region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong. en 1964 1958 A History of Hong Kong G. B. Endacott https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon0000enda/mode Oxford University Press 267 https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon0000enda/page/266/mode/ The question of Kowloon City was discussed with Li Hung-chang, Viceroy of KwantungKwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces, when he passed through the colony in July 1900. A Colonial Office official minuted on this, 'We have definitely decided not to allow the City to fall under Chinese jurisdiction, and have told the Chinese government so, and have passed an order in council including it in the New Territory, and the matter is at an end.' The Foreign Office arrangement of leaving Kowloon City as it was, was dropped, but Chinese opinion in Kwangtung Province continued to regard it as not forming part of the lease. en January 15, 1989 Martin Booth HONG KONG SKYSCRAPERS AND SEA DRAGONS w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240407135352/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/01/15/hong-kong-skyscrapers-and-sea-dragons/83ffd9f3-a640-48c5-a953-aded05c25136/ April 07, 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/01/15/hong-kong-skyscrapers-and-sea-dragons/83ffd9f3-a640-48c5-a953-aded05c25136/ 0190-8286 2269358 Her research is, given her circumstances as a visitor, impeccable, although there are inevitably tiny mistakes. These will irk the Hong Kong cognoscenti (Kowloon City, for example, is not at the southern tip of Kowloon Peninsula but to the northeast) yet detract little from the tour de force this book surely is; for it is much more than a travel book, much more than a historical or social study. en 1994 Bruce Thomas Childhood Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit: A Biography by Bruce Thomas https://archive.org/details/bruceleefighting0000thom/ Berkeley, California Frog, Ltd. 1-883319-11-0 94-25723 30701550 4 https://archive.org/details/bruceleefighting0000thom/page/4/ The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor. en 2010 Andrew Stone; Piera Chan; Chung Wah Chow Neighbourhoods & Islands Hong Kong & Macau City Guide w:Lonely Planet https://archive.org/details/hongkongmacau0000ston/ 14th 9781741792256 692648399 114 https://archive.org/details/hongkongmacau0000ston/page/114/ 1 The district of Wong Tai Sin to the north of Kowloon City is known for two things: its enormous and faceless housing estate and one of the most active and interesting temples in the territory. en 2015 Charley Lanyon; Maloy Luakian; Dorothy So; Kate Springer Experience Hong Kong Fodor's Hong Kong: With a Side Trip to Macau https://archive.org/details/fodorshongkongwi0000unse/ Fodor's Travel 24th 978-1-101-87819-4 890757713 11 https://archive.org/details/fodorshongkongwi0000unse/page/11/ 1 Immigrants from other parts of Asia also marked out their territories on the city’s culinary map, with Kowloon City known for its Thai food, Tsim Sha Tsui for Indian and Korean, and Causeway Bay for Japanese. en November 23, 2016 Lucas Peterson In Hong Kong’s Kowloon, the Markets Rule w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20161123081249/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/travel/hong-kong-kowloon-markets-budget-travel.html 23 November 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/travel/hong-kong-kowloon-markets-budget-travel.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel On another day, I went for a walk through Kowloon City, a section of town that partly includes an actual walled city with a history that can be traced back centuries and was demolished in the 1990s (it’s now a public park). en district sar/Hong Kong. Translations area in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 九龍城 gau2 lung4 sing4 Mandarin: cmn 九龍城 Jiǔlóngchéng Polish: pl Kowloon City n Further reading Kowloon City