Hokshan

“We're from Hokshan,” said Bernette Ho, a 23‐year‐old Hunter graduate, who said her mother was preparing a variety of Hokshan delicacies including gai lung, a meat‐filled pastry. “I'm from the Bronx and my mother's making grease balls,” said Miss Ho's flompanion, K. G. Louie. But he said he didn't know the Chinese name for the pastries his mother was preparing in keeping with the traditions of the family, which originated in the Toishan district of Kwangtung Province.

1973 February 1, “Chinese New Year to Dawn in Burst of Parades, Song and Dance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2024, page 37

In 1732 in order to facilitate the defense of settled villages against the alleged depredations of Yao tribesmen living in mountains in the area, territory was taken from Xinhui and Kaiping to form Heshan (Hokshan) as the last county of Wuyi and one of the last counties in the Pearl River Delta region to be created before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

2004, Him Mark Lai, “Guangdong Origins”, in Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13

In 2013, the China National Nuclear Corporation planned to construct a nuclear power plant in Jiangmen's Hokshan city. The residents of Jiangmen and Hokshan heard about the plan and argued that an environmental risks assessment had not been conducted.[…]In response to the public opposition, the Hokshan city government decided to shelve the plan.

2020, Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo, “The Political Economy of Regional Integration in the Greater Bay Area Away from Macau's Casino Capitalism”, in Casino Capitalism, Society and Politics in China’s Macau, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170