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"ref": "1962 [1961], Ralph Herrmanns, translated by Annabelle MacMillan, Lee Lan Flies the Dragon Kite, 1st American edition, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/leelanfliesdrago00herr/page/n18/",
"text": "Lee Lan can see the lights from as far away as her home at Shau Kei Wan, and she never ceases to marvel at them.",
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"ref": "1966, Gene Gleason, chapter 6, in Joy to My Heart, 1st edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120",
"text": "To reach Rennie’s Mill on her first visit there, Sister Annie boarded one of the green double-deck trams which run along the Hong Kong Island waterfront, and rode to the fishing village of Shau Kei Wan, near the eastern entrance of Hong Kong Harbor.",
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"ref": "2010 October 14, “Travel Picks: Top 10 sporting event destinations for 2011”, in Belinda Goldsmith, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-18, Lifestyle",
"text": "After the final whistle, the best way to explore the sights and sounds of Hong Kong is to hop on the ‘Ding Ding’ tram which runs from Kennedy Town in the island’s west to Shau Kei Wan in the east.",
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"ref": "2016, Carolyn Phillips, “The Coastal Southeast”, in All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China, Ten Speed Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189",
"text": "Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves.",
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"ref": "2017 February 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “On Deck With China’s Last Junk Builders, Masters of an Ebbing Craft”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-26, Asia Pacific",
"text": "In his boatyard on Hong Kong Island, in the eastern district of Shau Kei Wan, he points to photographs of wooden ships of all kinds that he has built since being apprenticed to an uncle at the age of 13: simple “walla-walla” motorboats and corporate junks that carry some design elements of the traditional junk but without sails.\nBeyond the wood shavings, the harbor glitters in the sun. Fishing boats draw up outside to deliver their catch to the next-door Shau Kei Wan wholesale fish market.",
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"ref": "2019 September 21, Raf Wober, “Hong Kong protesters, police face off in renewed clashes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-18",
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"ref": "2020 June 26, Li-hua Chung, “New rules intensify distrust in China: academic”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-27, Taiwan News, page 3",
"text": "The report lists three locations in the territory — Sai Kung Town, Aberdeen and Shau Kei Wan — where Hong Kongers are picked up by boats and taken to the Taiwan Strait, where they board another boat and are dropped off either in Hsinchu or Chiayi county, or Taichung, Tainan or Kaohsiung.",
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"text": "Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves.",
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"text": "In his boatyard on Hong Kong Island, in the eastern district of Shau Kei Wan, he points to photographs of wooden ships of all kinds that he has built since being apprenticed to an uncle at the age of 13: simple “walla-walla” motorboats and corporate junks that carry some design elements of the traditional junk but without sails.\nBeyond the wood shavings, the harbor glitters in the sun. Fishing boats draw up outside to deliver their catch to the next-door Shau Kei Wan wholesale fish market.",
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"text": "Ho made an appearance in the Shau Kei Wan neighborhood but residents shouted at him and told him to leave, RTHK said.",
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"ref": "2020 June 26, Li-hua Chung, “New rules intensify distrust in China: academic”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-27, Taiwan News, page 3",
"text": "The report lists three locations in the territory — Sai Kung Town, Aberdeen and Shau Kei Wan — where Hong Kongers are picked up by boats and taken to the Taiwan Strait, where they board another boat and are dropped off either in Hsinchu or Chiayi county, or Taichung, Tainan or Kaohsiung.",
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"word": "筲箕灣"
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