kowloon city

Example Sentences

• "The question of Kowloon City was discussed with Li Hung-chang, Viceroy of Kwantung^([sic – meaning Kwangtung]) and Kwangsi Provinces, when he passed through the colony in July 1900. A Colonial Office official minuted on this, 'We have definitely decided not to allow the City to fall under Chinese jurisdiction, and have told the Chinese government so, and have passed an order in council including it in the New Territory, and the matter is at an end.' The Foreign Office arrangement of leaving Kowloon City as it was, was dropped, but Chinese opinion in Kwangtung Province continued to regard it as not forming part of the lease."
• "Her research is, given her circumstances as a visitor, impeccable, although there are inevitably tiny mistakes. These will irk the Hong Kong cognoscenti (Kowloon City, for example, is not at the southern tip of Kowloon Peninsula but to the northeast) yet detract little from the tour de force this book surely is; for it is much more than a travel book, much more than a historical or social study."
• "The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor."
• "The district of Wong Tai Sin to the north of Kowloon City is known for two things: its enormous and faceless housing estate and one of the most active and interesting temples in the territory."
• "Immigrants from other parts of Asia also marked out their territories on the city’s culinary map, with Kowloon City known for its Thai food, Tsim Sha Tsui for Indian and Korean, and Causeway Bay for Japanese."
• "On another day, I went for a walk through Kowloon City, a section of town that partly includes an actual walled city with a history that can be traced back centuries and was demolished in the 1990s (it’s now a public park)."