Tai Ping Shan Street

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Its junction with Po Yan Street near Tung Wah Hospital

Its junction with Square street and Kui In Fong

Tai Ping Shan Street (太平山街) 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.

[edit] History

Tai Ping Shan (太平山) is an alternative name to Victoria Peak. After ceding of Hong Kong Island from Qing to British in 1840s, British force made garrison here and later the government relocated all Chinese residents in Choong Wan to the area surrounding of Tai Ping Shan Street. The population soared after Eight-Nation Alliance invasion of China. Around 1884, bubonic plague prevailed and caused massive death in the area. Hong Kong Government soon implemented a series of measure including cleaning of street, demolishing part of residents to build Blake Garden, establishing Bacteriological Institute. Local Chinese developed their own medical networks leading to the establishment of Tung Wah Hospital.