Kowloon Tsai
English
Proper noun
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, 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.
- 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 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
- (obsolete) Kau Lung Tsai, small Kowloon
Further reading
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