Sheung Wan

English Etymology From en yue 上環 soeng6 waan4, when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pronunciation en /ʃɜːŋ wɑːn/ /ʃɜːŋ wæn/ Proper noun 1 en area district/Central and Western sar/Hong Kong. en 1998 Stephanie Po-yin Chung An Immigrant Community and its Leadership, 1841–1900 Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900–25 https://archive.org/details/chinesebusinessg0000zhon/ w:St. Martin's Press 0312163444 96-24402 35657802 22 https://archive.org/details/chinesebusinessg0000zhon/page/22/ The British could identify very few ‘village elders’ in the colony. The reason was that the majority of the Chinese in Hong Kong were male immigrants with no village to which to attach themselves. They tended to settle in an area known as Sheung Wan (the Upper Bay) on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island. en June 29, 2012 Sisi Tang; Stephen Aldred; Tan Ee Lyn; Clarie Lee Memo to Hong Kong's new leader: must clear the air James Pomfret; Nick Macfie w:Reuters https://archive.ph/kEbTv https://www.reuters.com/article/business/environment/memo-to-hong-kongs-new-leader-must-clear-the-air-idUSBRE85S0JX/ 6 November 2024 Environment Newspaper vendor Chung Tang, 74, knows just how bad it can be, working all day at a bus stop in Sheung Wan, a busy neighborhood next to the Central business district where pollution-free trams trundle along metal rails, between the cars and buses, just as they have done for more than 100 years.Tang was referring to a government measure to ban idling engines on streets, especially in densely populated pockets of Hong Kong island, like Sheung Wan, where narrow, poorly ventilated streets help concentrated emissions collect. July 28, 2019 Shibani Mahtani Hong Kong clashes turn streets into tear-gas filled battleground for second day in a row https://web.archive.org/web/20190728164657/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kong-streets-turn-into-tear-gas-filled-battleground-for-second-day-in-a-row/2019/07/28/0c2d09de-b0b1-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html 28 July 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kong-streets-turn-into-tear-gas-filled-battleground-for-second-day-in-a-row/2019/07/28/0c2d09de-b0b1-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html Asia & Pacific https://archive.ph/nqfXf Police and protesters alike shouted warnings to residents to close their windows and protect themselves from tear gas. But the noxious gas fired around the trendy Sheung Wan neighborhood just west of central Hong Kong seeped into packed residential buildings, hotels and air-conditioning systems. June 20, 2021 Tiffany May In the New Hong Kong, Booksellers Walk a Fine Line https://web.archive.org/web/20210620090502/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstores-nsl.html https://archive.is/blBQB At Mount Zero, a jewel-box-size bookstore in the Sheung Wan district, the owner hosts visits by politically controversial authors. en historical en former district city/Victoria colony/Hong Kong c/United Kingdom. Translations area in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 上環 soeng6 waan4 Further reading Sheung Wan