New Territories

Proper noun

the New Territories

1. One of the three main regions of Hong Kong.
   • Accustomed as we are to working in small, “bounded” rural communities, anthropologists are often disconcerted by the amorphous and heterogeneous populations of large cities. How are the boundaries of the urban sample to be determined, and how should the fieldworker proceed with his study? As...1974, George M. Foster, Robert V. Kemper, “Introduction: A Perspective on Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities”, in Anthropologists in Cities, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8
   • Sha Tau Kok was out on a limb, a tiny village half in China, half in the New Territories, with Mirs Bay to the south and a range of hills stiff with Jap troops immediately to the north.1982, Clive Egleton, chapter 1, in Operation Sovereign, Severn House, published 1998, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13

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