Shumchun

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en yue - 深圳 sam1 zan3. Proper noun en dated en Shenzhen: a Cantonese-derived name. en May 7, 1924 RAILWAY FIGHTING. w:The Hongkong Telegraph https://archive.org/details/NPTG19240507/ 12,478 32449420 1 https://archive.org/details/NPTG19240507/ 3 It is difficult to ascertain precisely what is transpiring on the East River front at present. Reports say that General Lin Iu-hung's forces, which captured Shum Chun and other points on the Canton-Kowloon Railway, have suddenly evacuated those places and retired to Lung Kwong and Ping Shan, but that Dr. Sun's troops still hesitate to advance. en 1941 Leon Bryce Bloch; Lamar Middleton The War Over in 1940 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156775/ New York Living Age Press 2493918 691 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156775/page/n704/ 2 Two thousand Japanese troops are concentrated at Shumchun, railroad town opposite Hong Kong border.[...]5 Chinese say they have recovered control of the railway from Sheklung to Shumchun. Reports also are that the Japanese have transferred many troops to the Indo-China border. en 1973 w:Harrison E. Salisbury To Peking—and Beyond: A Report on the New Asia https://archive.org/details/topekingandbeyon00harr/ w:Quadrangle Books 0-8129-0333-1 72-90467 595471 15 https://archive.org/details/topekingandbeyon00harr/page/15/ I looked through the slit, focusing my binoculars as directed by the chief of the Hong Kong defense battalion, and saw through the lens the grim visage of People’s Liberation Army soldiers on guard on their side of the Lo Wu Bridge, the Shumchun side, behind their barbed wire. The year was 1966, and China was tense with the exploding Cultural Revolution. en 5 Nov 2013 The past in a different country: Australian expats share memories of living in China https://web.archive.org/web/20131106013055/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-06/memories-of-living-in-china/5071490 06 November 2013 Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation#Online_and_digital Australian Broadcasting Corporation After entry, then the first taste of Chinese hospitality and the privileged treatment accorded to arriving foreigners.A jovial English-speaking host walked you along the Shumchun (Shenzhen) railway platform and up a stairway to a restaurant where you were offered a multi-course tasty meal, and saw the first evidence of China's doctrine of self-sufficiency. No Coca Cola here, the soft drink was different in taste, sugar-heavy. en 2018 Paul French City of Devils https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/ Picador (imprint) Picador 978-1-250-17059-0 2017060113 1050280429 118 https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/page/118/ Cabbage Moh, a Cantonese smuggler and drug dealer from triad-controlled Shumchun on the Hong Kong border, sees an opportunity to the north and opens dens supplying dope and philopon ferried up the Soochow Creek and distributed out of Fah Wah Village, adjacent to the new sin strip. en 17 January 2021 Paul French Paul French (author) Myth busting: Shenzhen’s sleazy past as short-lived gangster and gambling hub Shum Chun w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20210117025129/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3117505/myth-busting-shenzhens-sleazy-past-short-lived https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3117505/myth-busting-shenzhens-sleazy-past-short-lived January 17, 2021 1563-9371 648902513 Post Magazine https://archive.ph/vTBIj Shum Chun’s population swelled throughout the 50s as it became the centre for the Bao’an County government, owing to its proximity to the KCR and an economy that was larger than its rival, Nantou. Shum Chun also became a temporary home for refugees attempting to escape to Hong Kong from Mao’s Communist China.Then, in 1978, a central inspection team from the State Council in Beijing arrived, looked around and decided that Bao’an County might make a good foreign trade port and Shum Chun, now commonly called Shenzhen, a good “Trade Cooperation Zone”. The words “sleepy”, “backwater” and “small” may apply to the fishing village of Yumin, in Shenzhen’s Luohu district, but most definitely not to Shum Chun nor, it should be said, to the once walled village of Nantou, now also incorporated into the metropolis. on en