Yau Tong
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Cantonese 油塘 (jau4 tong4).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Yau Tong
- An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region[1] (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, , →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
- When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.
- 2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-10, Asia Pacific[3]:
- “When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”
- 2019 July 11, Joyce Zhou, John Ruwitch, Tyrone Siu, Felix Tam, Vimvam Tong, “Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 11 July 2019, World News[5]:
- On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island.
- 2023 February 4, Candice Chau, “Environmental protesters rally against illegal concrete plant in Hong Kong amid heavy police presence”, in Hong Kong Free Press[6], archived from the original on 05 September 2024, Hong Kong:
- Hong Kong saw one of its first protests since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group of environmental activists protested against the illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong on Saturday.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Yau Tong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.