Government Hill

English

Proper noun

Government Hill

1. A hill in Central, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
   • 1843, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 112:

     The western part of the island is likewise divided from the centre by two ravines, both running from the same eminence - the one to the south terminating in a small undulating piece of country, on which the village of Pok-foo-lum is situated; other to the north, where it spreads out and forms Government Hill and the small flat beneath.

   • 2002, Solomon Bard, Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

     The buildings, erected around 1843, housed the first government offices on the 'Government Hill', between Lower Albert Road, seen on the right, and Battery Path below.

   • 2010 October 25, “Shopping mall should not be built on Government Hill”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 November 2020‎^[2]:

     Hong Kong people deserve a better-protected Government Hill. It will be very sad if this valuable site is to become a 'Developer's Hill'.

2. (metonymically) The Former Central Government Offices of the Government of Hong Kong.
   • 2016, Charlie Q. L. Xue, Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: From Colonial to Global, Springer, →ISBN, page 45:

     The west wing of “Government Hill” was proposed to be demolished to give way to high-rise office buildings.The protesters thought that no matter how dull it was, the “Government Hill” had witnessed a piece of Hong Kong history after the war and should be preserved totally.

   • 2016, Ken Nicolson, Landscapes Lost and Found: Appreciating Hong Kong’s Heritage Cultural Landscapes, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 95:

     Although it appears to be a self-contained enclave in the central business district, Government Hill has not been totally cocooned from change. […]
     If the new CGO blocks had been typical high-rise, they would have destroyed the character of Government Hill. A popular feature of the CGO compound was accessibility.

   • 2018, Pui-yin Ho, Making Hong Kong, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN:

     During the consultation period, former Secretary for Works Michael Wright and former Chief Secretary David Akers-Jones advised the government to conserve the Government Hill as a whole and not to demolish the West Wing.

Translations

hill in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 政府山

Further reading

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