Ha Tsuen

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From Cantonese 廈村厦村.

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Ha Tsuen

  1. An area in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2018, Joseph W. Esherick, Mary Backus Rankin, Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 242:
      These landlords lived in Ha Tsuen but had extensive interests in shops, businesses, and factories outside their home village. The landlord-merchants described here rank well below the national elite of Qing or Republican times.
  2. A rural committee in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 1976, Hong Kong Law Reports:
      The elected village representatives constitute the Ha Tsuen Rural Committee and they elect their own committee and chair-man.
    • 2020 April 19, “Hong Kong’s piano van: Music lessons go mobile to beat virus”, in Hong Kong Free Press[1], archived from the original on 20 October 2023:
      Last week Kam’s truck was in Ha Tsuen, a remote village in northwest Hong Kong, close to the border with China.
    • 2023, Angelina Chin, Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
      Tang also disclosed that the manager of Yau kung[sic – meaning Kung] Tong, a family concern operating the number one oyster farm in Deep Bay, had lodged a complaint with the Ha Tsuen Rural Committee against members of a Chinese commune from across the bay who had taken over more than one-third of the farm.

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