Cameron Road
金馬倫道
Cameron Road at night in March 2013.
Traditional Chinese金馬倫道
Simplified Chinese金马伦道
1897 map of the area east of Nathan Road (then called "Robinson Road"), including Kimberley Road, Granville Road, Carnarvon Road and Cameron Road.
Cameron Road in 2020.

Cameron Road (Chinese: 金馬倫道) is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Location

The west end of Cameron Road is Nathan Road while the east end is Chatham Road South, and it is almost parallel to Granville Road and Mody Road.[1]

Name

Cameron Road is named after Major General William Gordon Cameron,[1] the Administrator of Hong Kong from April to October 1887.[2]

Shopping

The area east of Nathan Road, comprising Cameron Road, Granville Road and Carnarvon Road has been described as having "teeming shops" and likely the main reason that Hong Kong acquired the "shopping paradise" tag, a phrase first put into print in an ironic manner by author Han Suyin,[3] in her 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing.

The 2003 Johnnie To movie PTU is partly set in Cameron Road. While the final shootout sequence of the film takes place in Canton Road, To reportedly said that "if there was a single location where he would have wanted to stage a gunfight battle, it was Cameron Road, but he could not get permission from the police to do it". The sequence was actually shot in Ap Lei Chau.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Yanne, Andrew; Heller, Gillis (2009). Signs of a Colonial Era. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 9789622099449.
  2. ↑ "Government Notification No. 165 of 1887" (PDF). The Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary. 25 April 1887.
  3. ↑ Ingham, Michael (2007). Hong Kong: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-972447-5.
  4. ↑ Teo, Stephen (2007). Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 128, 129, 264. Archived from the original on 2012-12-21.
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