Ha Tsuen

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 廈村 / 厦村.

Proper noun

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.

   • 2022 December 7, Edith Lin, “Hong Kong authorities reassure brownfield operators they may use sites for free until ‘actual eviction day’”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 07, 2022, Hong Kong economy‎^[2]:

     “We understand that we need to scale down our operation in these industrial buildings, but these buildings are not even ready in time,” said Mat Ching Chi-wai, director of a 100,000 sq ft (9,290 square metres) logistics company at Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long.

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^[3], 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.

Related terms

• Ha Tsuen Shi, Ha Tsuen Heung

Translations

area in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廈村 / 厦村

rural committee

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 廈村鄉鄉事委員會 / 厦村乡乡事委员会

Further reading

• Ha Tsuen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.