sham chun

Example Sentences

• "It is part of Skinner’s argument that men with wider political and economic horizons will operate within areas defined in relation to higher-order market centres; and it may follow from this that the great lineage groupings maintained in the case of the few dominant ‘surnames’ in the southern part of Hsin-an county (such that local lineages very widely separated were grouped together) were dependent on the fact that the influential leaders of these local lineages had an active interest in the superior market town of Sham Chun, which now lies just to the north of the frontier between China and the Colony of Hong Kong."
• "It is certain that trade and market relations between the New Territories' villages and Kowloon increased when the Kowloon-Canton Railroad was built through the New Territories. The railroad was started in 1906, and by 1915 it was completed as far as Sham Chun, a market town within China, across the Sham Chun River."
• "Nevertheless two independent reports from China stated that between ten and twenty thousand Japanese troops were expected to arrive at Sham Chun, five miles north of Fanling, on 4 December for an attack on the Colony. General Maltby did not believe these reports, preferring his own intelligence sources."
• "The man was a tough character who had fled Mao's China by swimming across the Sham Chun river to Hong Kong. From there he had gone to the United States where he had set up a chain of restaurants and made his fortune, then returned home."