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The middle room was occupied by Tai Yau, the woman who had sold her little boy into slavery, and her servant.
Tai Yau was about twenty-six years old, and her servant nearly sixty.
Speaking of the incident of Tai Yau having sold her boy to pay her fine, Governor Hennessy wrote the Colonial Office, under date of December 6th, 1877: "I am now informed that the Commissioners have obtained from the records of the Registrar General's department and from Mr.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/8/1/12818/12818.txt   (15008 words)

  
 Tai Ping Hou Kui Tea - TeaSpring.com
Tai Ping Hou Kui is one of China's Ten Famous tea.
Our Tai Ping Hou Kui is from Hou Keng village, located at the foothill of Tai Ping county.
In the same way that Xihu area is known to produce the best Long Jing, Hou Keng village is where the highest grade of Hou Kui is produced.
www.teaspring.com /Tai-Ping-Hou-Kui.asp   (217 words)

  
 Tai Ping Hou Kui Green Tea 2 oz. Package
Tai Ping Hou Kui Green Tea 2 oz.
A large leaf, fabulous green tea with a sweet, complex taste, devoid of the bitter edge that some inferior greens are prone to.
Named after the city of Tai Ping in Anhui, China, near the Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain) area, this tea is characterized by a flat double leaf with hidden downy bud.
store.teance.com /gt00101.html   (87 words)

  
 Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail
Moreover, Tai Ping Ching Chiu Festival (meaning "the Purest Sacrifice Celebrated for Great Peace") is held once every decade and celebrated by the whole Tang clan as well as people from the neighbouring villages.
It was constructed in 1926, and extended in 1951 as the congregation grew.
A number of stone tablets engraved with the characters "Tai Shan Shek Kam Dong" meaning "the stone from Tai Shan dares to defend" are erected at the "dark spots" to shield off evil spirits.
www.hktrampers.com /FactFile/LungYeukTauHeritageTrail   (2227 words)

  
 Mid-levels
Lung Fu Shan Country Park covers the densely vegetated slopes of Lung Fu Shan, including the disused Pinewood Battery as well as the Pinewood Garden picnic area, providing a scenic backdrop to the residential and commercial districts of Hong Kong Island.
Towards the east of Lung Fu Shan Country Park is Hatton Road, to the south is Harlech Road whereas to the north and west is a covered conduit constructed by the Water Supplies Department.
The museum is located in the Fung Ping Shan Building, which is situated next to the main entrance of the university.
www.askfactmaster.com /Mid-Levels   (4841 words)

  
 Huang Shan Mao Feng Tea - TeaSpring.com
Huang Shan is one of China's famous mountain for producing great Green teas and their Mao Feng is certainly one of the best.
Xie Yi Ping, a descendant of the original creator of this tea (Mr.
It is made using the traditional processing method passed down from five generations ago.
www.teaspring.com /Huang-Shan-Mao-Feng.asp   (199 words)

  
 Wings Taiwan
Located in a broad inland valley, Kao Tai is one of the most attractive and best equipped sites on the island.
On days when the valley wind blows, there is an alternative site on Tai Ping Shan at 900m amsl, 700agl.
This is the higher launch at Tai Ping Shan.
www.wingstaiwan.com /taitung.php   (496 words)

  
 VirtualTourist.com - DarkRay's Taiwan Travel Page
Mount Tai Ping Forest Recreation Area is located within the Ilan county and is one of Taiwan's three major forest recreation areas.
Standard at the peak of Tai Ping Shan (Mount Peace) is the largest alpine lake on the island, Cui Feng Hu (Jade Peak Lake), which actually receive snow during the winter season!
Tai Ping Shan is also located near the Ren Ze Hot Springs, in which one of the main attractions for visitors is to boil eggs in the 95C hot water and then eat it!
members.virtualtourist.com /m/6818a/5d1   (272 words)

  
 Victoria Peak,Hong Kong
In the early period of colonial rule the Victoria Peak was open to the people of upper strata of society only.
Tai Ping Shan, 554 meters above sea level, is the summit of Hong Kong island and the best place of looking down at the scenery of the Victoria Harbour.
Taking mountain climbing cable car, which has a hundred year old history, to reach the Victoria Peak, you can proceed to the Peak Tower, which was rebuilt after toppling sown the Lao Qing Pavillion.
www.orientaltravel.com /province/city/area/HK_Victoria_Peak.htm   (223 words)

  
 Victoria Peak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victoria Peak or The Peak (扯旗山, 爐峯, 太平山頂, Tai Ping Shan, Mount Austin) is a mountain in the South-West of Hong Kong Island.
Eat noodles also cook the noodles in front of the guests.
Lung Fu Shan Fitness Trail is a 750 m long trail showing the environment of the Peak.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Peak   (835 words)

  
 Chinese Green Teas
Tai Ping Hou Kui Green grows on the northern slopes of one range of the Huangshan Mountains.
Rain half the year and mist and clouds the rest, along with the shade of the northern slopes, provide ideal conditions for tender tea leaves.
This is our Super Fine Tai Ping Hou Kui Green "Houkeng Leader" Long, straight, taunt and heavy, the dry leaf has a rich vegetal aroma.
www.holymtn.com /tea/greentea.htm   (3003 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tai-Pan: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Dirk Struan is the Tai Pan (supreme leader) of the Noble House, the largest and strongest of the China traders.
If you were a fan of Shogun's like myself, Tai Pan might be a little bit of a let down because it is lacking in the manipulative intrigue department.
In Tai Pan every thing is there for a rousing adventure, but it is left under developed and in many ways is stiff and un-pliable.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440184622?v=glance   (2122 words)

  
 Victoria Peak, Repulse Bay & Stanley
Pauleen Ma (Wellesley class of 2001) and her brother Timothy picked me up around 10Am for a tour of Hong Kong Island.
We began with a trip up Victoria Peak, Tai Ping Shan (Mountain of Great Peace) in Chinese.
One takes a funicular and the trip up and the top both reminded me of Corcovado in Rio (minus the statue of Christ).
www.wellesley.edu /Economics/witte/Jan2.html   (405 words)

  
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What is interesting about the outbreak of the Black Death in Hong Kong was that it had been widely predicted for at least two decades prior that a health crisis was looming.
Many of Hong Kong's poorest Chinese immigrants crowded into tiny tenements in Western's old Tai Ping Shan district to eke out a living, trying to save as much as possible to speed up the day (often that never arrived) whereby they could retire back to their village in China.
You can enjoy a number of these and other stories in an upcoming walking tour we shall be doing in Hong Kong's fascinating Western district, featuring the disease, death and the macabre ghost stories of Chinese Tai Ping Shan.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10523517&postID=111630429063875204   (568 words)

  
 Aquifoliaceae [Draft]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Anhui (Huang Shan), Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
Young branchlets castaneous, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, glabrous; older branchlets gray, longitudinally fissured, with circular or elliptic convex lenticels.
Hubei (Lichuan Xian), Hunan (Xuofeng Shan, Yongshun Xian), Jiangxi (Shangyou Xian, Suichuan Xian).
flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/mss/volume11/Aquifoliaceae-AGH_edited.htm   (13779 words)

  
 Travel - Hong Kong (New Territories)
Ping Shan Heritage Trial and Tsui Shing Lau
Built in 1486, this is Hong Kong's only historic pagoda and is located in the Yuen Long area.
A walk of about ten minutes will take you to the southern end of the Ping Shan Heritage Trail along Ping Ha Road.
www.west-meet-east.com /travelhkntis.htm   (873 words)

  
 artsmia.org : viewer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Chang Lu, also called T'ien-ch'ih and Ping-shan, was born in the northern city of Kaiteng.
He is classified as a Che school painter, a school founded by Tai Chin who revitalized the simplified compositions, graded washes and vigorous brushwork of the earlier Southern Sung artists Ma Yuan (active 1189-1225) and Hsia Kuei (active 1180-1224).
Chang Lu took greater interest in broad decorative effect, arrested movement and rough brushwork than did earlier Che school masters.
www.artsmia.org /arts-of-asia/China/dynasties/ming-1.cfm   (111 words)

  
 Worldisround - The People and Culture of Taiwan - Taiwan photos
He is decorating a bamboo shoot for me so...
This town is located towards the uppermost part of Tai Ping Shan.
This picture was taken at night after a long train ride from Tai Ping...
www.worldisround.com /articles/4824   (338 words)

  
 Victoria Peak (Tai Ping Shan) - Hong Kong - Reviews of Victoria Peak (Tai Ping Shan) - TripAdvisor
Victoria Peak (Tai Ping Shan) - Hong Kong - Reviews of Victoria Peak (Tai Ping Shan) - TripAdvisor
Hong Kong's number one tourist destination features the Peak Tower and the Peak Tram, the city's oldest mode of public transport.
Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Hong Kong tourism, hotels, maps and much more.
tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g294217-d311573-Reviews-Victoria_Peak_Tai_Ping...   (651 words)

  
 Stash Tea: Comparing and Contrasting Chinese and English Tea Ware
Fung Ping Shan Museum., and Ching-te-chen shih t ao tz u k ao ku yen chiu so.
Ching-te-chen ch u t u Wu tai chih Ch ing ch u tz u chan/Hsiang-kang Feng P ing-shan po wu kuan chi Ching-te- chen shih t ao tz u k ao ku yen chiu so lien ho chu pan = Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen kilns (10th-17th Century).
Jointly presented by the Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology and the Fung Ping Shan Museum, the University of Hong Kong (Title: Ching- te-chen ch u t u t ao tz u).
www.stashtea.com /teaware.htm   (4317 words)

  
 Kung Fu DVD
DEATH DUEL (1977) with Ling Yun, Derek Yee, and Chen Ping.
THE MASTER (1980) with Chen Kuan Tai, and Wang Lung Wei.
THE CONDEMNED (1976) with Chin Han, Tina Chin Fei, and Helen Ko.
www.dvdcult.com /KFDVD5.htm   (3356 words)

  
 Renewed evangelism in China
The Chapel from Tao Fong Shan, meaning "mountain of the Christ Wind," sits atop a mountain in Hong Kong as the center of the Christian Mission to the Buddhists
An unexpected development was the Tai Ping rebellion.
This Chinese agrarian mass movement invoked certain elements of Christianity in a rebellion against the ruling dynasty.
demo.lutherproductions.com /historytutor/basic/modern/stories/renew-china.htm   (173 words)

  
 CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
Hong Kong's most imposing natural wonder is also its most beautiful.
Victoria Peak, or Tai Ping Shan, rises over 1,800 feet and provides the perfect panoramic view of the glittering Hong Kong skyline.
Kowloon Park (Haiphong Road, near Nathan Road) is a great place to enjoy a leisurely stroll, or a picnic lunch.
www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/localinterest.cfm?recordID=176   (323 words)

  
 SHEUNG WAN & CENTRAL WEST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It became the Pathological Institute and used as a lab until the 1950s.
The building was situated in hills above Sai Yung Pun in the upper part of Tai Ping Shan area where the plague outbreak happened 100 years ago.
During the 1894 Plague, the government realized that there was no study of the disease.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~yoshizo/hk/may/hki/sheungwan/sheungwan.html   (701 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Revitalization of Ladder Street in Tai Ping Shan Town
Find in a Library: Revitalization of Ladder Street in Tai Ping Shan Town
Revitalization of Ladder Street in Tai Ping Shan Town
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/e1f8ed75cbfe03b9a19afeb4da09e526.html   (76 words)

  
 Ross の 乱弹区
Now just finished the movie and came back home, log on to computer, and am staring into this screen wandering what am I doing on this boring weekend?...
Shan had just forward me a 988 life radio link.
Oh yea, did I mention is was the coldest winder in HK today?...
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 Hong Kong Island
We decided to visit one of our favorite spots from our previous trip to Hong Kong...
The Chinese name for Victoria Peak is "Tai Ping Shan," which means Mountain of Great Peace.
It is better known, however, as a mountain of wonderful views from its 1,805 foot vantage point.
www.anniebees.com /Asia/Asia10.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Hong Qiao International Airport Information - China, East Asia Provided By Columbus Travel Guides
Bus 925 runs to People's Square, Bus 938 runs to Pudong Yangjiadu, Bus 806 runs to Zhong Shan Nan Yi, Bus 807 runs to Shanghai West Railway Station, and airport Bus 1 runs to Shan Xi Lu.
The Shanghai International Airport Hotel (tel: (0)21 6268 8888) offers remote check-in for flights to Japan and a shuttle transfer to the international terminal.
Many major hotels have shuttle buses from the airport, enquire at the hotel desks in the airport Arrivals hall.
www.worldairportguide.com /Airports/sha/sha.asp   (618 words)

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