San Tin

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 新田 (san1 tin4).

Proper noun

San Tin

  1. An area of Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 1974, George M. Foster, Robert V. Kemper, “Introduction: A Perspective on Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities”, in Anthropologists in Cities‎[1], Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
      Accustomed as we are to working in small, “bounded” rural communities, anthropologists are often disconcerted by the amorphous and heterogeneous populations of large cities. How are the boundaries of the urban sample to be determined, and how should the fieldworker proceed with his study? As Anthony Leeds has pointed out (1968:31), we often try to solve this problem by concentrating on slums, squatter settlements, or ethnic minorities, on the assumption that they are analogous to the small rural villages we know, and that they can be investigated in similar fashion. Watson, for example, found that even in London he carried the image of the rural village with him from San Tin, the village in the Hong Kong New Territories he had studied.
    • 2015 November 30, Jeffie Lam, “Proposed Hong Kong border shopping centre meant to lure mainland China visitors delayed again”, in South China Morning Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 January 2016, Hong Kong economy‎[3]:
      A labour shortage and construction problems were blamed for the delayed debut of the mall in San Tin in the New Territories, import and export sector lawmaker Wong Ting-kwong said on Monday.
  2. A rural committee in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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