Tai Ping Shan Street

Tai Ping Shan Street (zh-cpcy|c=太平山街|p=Tàipíngshān Jiē|cy=taai3 ping4 saan1 gaai1) is a street marking the early colonial history in Hong Kong. Located at the north slope of Victoria Peak in Sheung Wan, the street starts east from a ladder street at the junction with Bridges Street and end west in Po Yan Street near Tung Wah Hospital. The street runs parallel to Hollywood Road.

History

"Tai Ping Shan" (太平山) is an alternative name to Victoria Peak. After the cession of Hong Kong Island from Qing China to British in 1840s, British forces made garrison here and later the government relocated all Chinese residents in Choong Wan to the area surrounding Tai Ping Shan Street. The population soared after Eight-Nation Alliance invasion of China. In May of 1894, the bubonic plague, which had been ravaging China, erupted and caused massive deaths in the area. The Hong Kong Government soon implemented a series of measures including cleaning of street, demolishing residences to build Blake Garden, and establishing the Bacteriological Institute.

ee also

* Description on the plague outbreak in History of Colonial Hong Kong.
* First Opium War.
* List of streets and roads in Hong Kong