Kowloon Tsai
English edit
Etymology edit
From Cantonese 九龍仔／九龙仔 (gau2 lung4 zai2).
Proper noun edit
Kowloon Tsai
- An area in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2007, Lisa Odham Stokes, “Yonghua Film Company”, in Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema[1], Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 536:
- Yonghua was founded in 1947 by Li Zuyong with assistance from Zhang Shankun to make Mandarin films in Hong Kong and was its first large-scale private enterprise film company; after creative differences about running the company, Zhang left in 1948; that same year, the company organized an artistic committee. The studio, first located at Kowloon Tsai, was managed by Lu Yuanliang, and was the largest and most modernized, state-of-the-art, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
- 2018 November 5, Christopher DeWolf, “Kowloon Tong history: Hong Kong’s original garden city and its unusual path”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 21, 2018, Travel & Leisure[3]:
- Yau Yat Chuen’s stylish villas overlooked the shacks of Tai Hang Tung; to the east, a squatter camp in Kowloon Tsai was described as “intolerable” by British Labour Party MPs who visited in 1969. Shanty towns were prone to fire and both Kowloon Tsai and Tai Hang Tung eventually burned to the ground, their residents given shelter in resettlement estates.
- 2023 August 27, Diana Pang, “Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press[4], archived from the original on 27 August 2023, Hong Kong:
- When the Hong Kong government developed the then-barren area of Kowloon Tsai into a residential area in the early 1950s, the streets were also named after English counties, such as Oxford Road (牛津道), Cambridge Road (劍橋道), and Durham Road (對衡道).
Synonyms edit
- (obsolete) Kau Lung Tsai, small Kowloon