Sheung Wan

The British could identify very few ‘village elders’ in the colony. The reason was that the majority of the Chinese in Hong Kong were male immigrants with no village to which to attach themselves. They tended to settle in an area known as Sheung Wan (the Upper Bay) on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island.

1998, Stephanie Po-yin Chung, “An Immigrant Community and its Leadership, 1841–1900”, in Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900–25, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 22

Newspaper vendor Chung Tang, 74, knows just how bad it can be, working all day at a bus stop in Sheung Wan, a busy neighborhood next to the Central business district where pollution-free trams trundle along metal rails, between the cars and buses, just as they have done for more than 100 years.[…] Tang was referring to a government measure to ban idling engines on streets, especially in densely populated pockets of Hong Kong island, like Sheung Wan, where narrow, poorly ventilated streets help concentrated emissions collect.

2012 June 29, Sisi Tang, Stephen Aldred, Tan Ee Lyn, Clarie Lee, “Memo to Hong Kong's new leader: must clear the air”, in James Pomfret, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2024, Environment

Police and protesters alike shouted warnings to residents to close their windows and protect themselves from tear gas. But the noxious gas fired around the trendy Sheung Wan neighborhood just west of central Hong Kong seeped into packed residential buildings, hotels and air-conditioning systems.

2019 July 28, Shibani Mahtani, “Hong Kong clashes turn streets into tear-gas filled battleground for second day in a row”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2019, Asia & Pacific