Meaning of Sham Chun | Babel Free

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Synonym of Shenzhen.

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“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.”

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