Lee Garden Hill
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately named after Hong Kong businessman Lee Hysan (利希慎) (1879-1928).
Proper noun[edit]
- A hill in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
- 1993 July 3, Kevin Kwong, “The party's over for the friends of heartbreak hotel”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 September 2023[2]:
- Lee Hysan, a wealthy opium trader bought a piece of land on a hill (later known as the Lee Garden Hill) in the early 20s to be used for his business.
- 1997, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University Bulletin:
- Early this century his grandfather — the famous Lee Hysan bought the entire hill which later became known as the Lee Garden Hill and established a base for the family in Hong Kong.
- 2019 July 18, 鄭寶鴻, 香港歷史考察之旅：港島區 (overall work in Chinese), 商務印書館(香港)有限公司, →ISBN, page 189:
- The Mitsukoshi Department Store in Hennessy Centre, on the area of levelled Lee Garden Hill, 2006. The building was later rebuilt into Hysan Place.
- 2022 June 30, Hong Kong Chronicles Institute, Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology, 聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）, →ISBN, page 190:
- The Foolish Old Man's Hut Poetry Club, later known as North Hill Poetry Club, was established by Mok Hok-ming (莫鶴鳴) and Choi Jit-fu (蔡哲夫) at the residence of a deputy manager on Lee Garden Hill borrowed from Lee Hy-san (利希慎); it was disbanded in 1925.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lee Garden Hill.