Sheung Shui

English Etymology From en yue 上水 soeng6 seoi2. Pronunciation shyo͝ongʹ shwāʹen 1952 Ping Chau Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1751 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1751/ 3 Proper noun 1 en area/and/town district/North region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong. en 1986 David Faure David Faure (historian) Villages and Village Clusters The Structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories, Hong Kong East Asian Historical Monographs https://archive.org/details/structureofchine0000faur/ w:Oxford University Press 0-19-583970-6 86-5423 13330108 95 https://archive.org/details/structureofchine0000faur/page/95/ Fan Ling has produced no holder of senior official titles. It makes a remote claim to official status from the achievement of an ancestor in the Song dynasty, whose portrait decorates one of the matsheds set up at the ta-tsiu.³¹ However, in the nineteenth century, it was included among the five great clans of the Sheung Shui area and was accepted into the New Alliance of the Po Tak temple at Sheung Shui market, membership of which implied gentry status. JUNE 10, 2014 Chris Horton Chinese Shoppers Change Hong Kong Border Area https://web.archive.org/web/20140611170650/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/realestate/commercial/chinese-shoppers-change-hong-kong-border-area.html Commercial Real Estate https://archive.is/XepKq Although a slowing economy and campaigns against extravagant consumption by government officials have hurt most luxury shopping hubs in Hong Kong, business has been booming in the New Territories. This is especially true along the East Rail Line, which links China with Hong Kong and runs through Sheung Shui and the towns of Fanling, Tai Po and Sha Tin, all of which offer walking access to large malls.One major initiative, the Northeast New Territories New Development Areas, involves building more than 60,000 apartments for about 175,000 people by 2022 and merging the towns of Sheung Shui and Fanling into a town of 500,000. It is projected to cost $15.5 billion. September 7, 2019 Rebecca Tan Amid protests, Hong Kong police receive a peculiar delivery: 100 meal boxes with raw chicken https://web.archive.org/web/20190908043039/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/09/07/amid-protests-hong-kong-police-receive-peculiar-delivery-boxes-raw-chicken/ 08 September 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/09/07/amid-protests-hong-kong-police-receive-peculiar-delivery-boxes-raw-chicken/ Asia https://archive.ph/Krh6i Sheung Shui, an area that borders mainland China, has been roiled by several large protests in recent weeks, with calls from local residents to “reclaim” the area from Chinese tourists and merchants. It was not immediately clear whether the raw chicken was the result of a genuine kitchen mistake or linked to the unrest in Sheung Shui. en May 25, 2020 Sarah Wu Hong Kong border town slumps as mainland traders vanish Marius Zaharia; Bill Rigby w:Reuters https://archive.ph/6FNNK https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/hong-kong-border-town-slumps-as-mainland-traders-vanish-idUSKBN2310JG/ November 6, 2024 Last summer, pro-democracy protesters harassed Chinese traders in Sheung Shui and smashed storefronts that catered to them in the Hong Kong border town, angry at what they saw as a de facto invasion. en rural committee district/North region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong. Translations area in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 上水 soeng6 seoi2 rural committee Chinese: Cantonese: yue 上水區鄉事委員會 soeng6 seoi2 keoi1 hoeng1 si6 wai2 jyun4 wui6-2 References Further reading Sheung Shui