Wong Yi Chau (Chinese: 黃宜洲) is a village in Tsam Chuk Wan, Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong.
_02.jpg)
_04.jpg)
Administration
editWong Yi Chau is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[1]
History
editPak Tam Chung was described as consisting of six villages in 1911 with fewer than 405 inhabitants: Wong Yi Chau, Pak Tam (北潭), Sheung Yiu (上窰), Tsak Yue Wu (鯽魚湖), Wong Keng Tei (黃麖地) and Tsam Chuk Wan. The six villages were all inhabited by Hakka people, with the exception of two hamlets in Pak Tam.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
- ^ Faure, David (1986). The structure of Chinese rural society: lineage and village in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780195839708.
- ^ Delang, Claudio O. (30 March 2018). "Local livelihoods and global process: complex causalities in Hong Kong's Sai Kung Peninsula". Miscellanea Geographica. 22 (1): 31–39. doi:10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0003. ISSN 2084-6118.
Further reading
edit- Hamilton, Eric; Schofield, Walter; Peplow, S. H.; Tsui, Paul; Coates, Austin; Hayes, James (2010). "Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula". In Strickland, John (ed.). Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 271–272. ISBN 9789888028382.
External links
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wong Yi Chau (village).
- Delineation of area of existing village Wong Yi Chau (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022) (includes Hei Tsz Wan)
22°23′20″N 114°19′06″E / 22.388828°N 114.318377°E
 | This Hong Kong location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |