Cameron Road
{{Short description|Road in Hong Kong, China}}
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File:HURLEY(1897) p172 Map of the KOWLOON ESTATE Property.jpg (then called "Robinson Road"), including Kimberley Road, Granville Road, Carnarvon Road and Cameron Road.]]
File:HK TST 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui 金馬倫道 Cameron Road near 金馬倫里 Cameron Lane June 2020 SS2 05.jpg
Cameron Road ({{zh|c=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.{{cite book |title= Signs of a Colonial Era|last1= Yanne|first1=Andrew|last2= Heller|first2= Gillis|year= 2009|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|pages= 56–57|isbn= 9789622099449}}
Name
Cameron Road is named after Major General William Gordon Cameron, the Administrator of Hong Kong from April to October 1887.{{cite journal |title=Government Notification No. 165 of 1887 |journal=The Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary|date=25 April 1887|url=https://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/g1887/664042.pdf}}
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,{{cite book |title= Hong Kong: A Cultural History|last= Ingham|first= Michael |year= 2007|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= |isbn=978-0-19-972447-5|page=172 |url= }} in her 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing.
In popular culture
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.{{cite book |last=Teo |first=Stephen |author-link= |date=2007 |title=Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-962-209-839-8/director-in-action/reviews |location= |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |pages=128, 129, 264 |isbn=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221223307/https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-962-209-839-8/director-in-action/reviews |archive-date=2012-12-21 }}
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=%E9%87%91%E9%A6%AC%E5%80%AB%E9%81%93,+Kowloon,+Hong+Kong&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.509065,59.326172&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=0,22.298987,114.173668&ll=22.29941,114.174535&spn=0.004487,0.007242&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1 Google Maps of Cameron Road]
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