Kowloon Tsai en · PROPN
Etymology
From Cantonese 九龍仔 /九龙仔 (gau² lung⁴ zai²).
Meanings
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An area of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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.
2007, Lisa Odham Stokes, “Yonghua Film Company”, in Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 536:The So Uk people were said to be related to the So families of Kowloon Tsai, which may explain why they alone among the Cheung Sha Wan villages were involved.
1983, James Hayes, “The Cheung Sha Wan Villages”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:Two children, brother and sister, died in the Kowloon Tsai fire last night.
1952 April 30, “Two Children Killed In Last Night's Kowloon Tsai Fire”, in The China Mail, number 35189, →OCLC, page 1, column 6: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).
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, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023, Hong Kong: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.
2018 November 5, Christopher DeWolf, “Kowloon Tong history: Hong Kong’s original garden city and its unusual path”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2018, Travel & Leisure:
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Translations (2)
pl Koulun Tsai (area in Hong Kong) · yue 九龍仔 /九龙仔 (area in Hong Kong)