Yuen Long
English
Alternative forms
- Un Long, Ün Long, Ünlong
Proper noun
Yuen Long
- An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- 2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific:
- On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.
- 2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific:
- More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.
- A district of Hong Kong.
- 1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:
- Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.
- 2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide), 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
- The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan[sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai] in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.
Translations
area in Hong Kong
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuen Long”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3
- Yuen Long, Un Long at Google Ngram Viewer
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