Shuntak

English thumb|Map including SHUN-TE (SHUNTAK) zh 順德 (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Alternative forms en Shun Tak Etymology Borrowed from en yue - 順德 seon6 dak1. Pronunciation en /ʃʌntɑk/ so͝onʹdǔkʹen 1952 Shuntak Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1759 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1759/ 1 Shuntak (so͝onʹdǔkʹ), Mandarin Shunte (sho͝onʹdǔʹ), Proper noun en Shunde (Foshan, Guangdong, China): the Cantonese-derived name. en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-xZBAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s The China Review: Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East 1894-1895 21 'China Mail' Office Hong Kong The Triad Society, Or Heaven and Earth Association William Stanton 179 In 1854 a Triad army, commanded by Tai Chün-kat, attacked Taileung, the chief city of the Shuntak district and captured it after half an hour's fighting. Tai Chün-kat, who appears to have been of a merciful disposition, successfully exerted himself in preventing the gentry and wealthy inhabitants from being plundered by his soldiers. en https://archive.org/details/commercereports03manugoog/mode 24 Sep 1915 Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports F. D. Cheshire 3 224 The Famous Lichee of China 1434 https://archive.org/details/commercereports03manugoog/page/n1440/mode/ The principal lichee-producing districts in Kwangtung Province are Namhoi, Pun Yu, Tsang Shing, and Tung Kun. Some lichees are grown in the Heungshan, Shuntak, and Samshui districts, and while they are produced in abundance in the Yeung Kong and Shui Tung districts they are of inferior quality. en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4HFiWAUn-HAC&dq=Shuntak&source=gbs_navlinks_s March 30, 1931 Extent of Kwangtung's Silk Industry Commercial Reports: A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade 13 813 About one-seventh of the world’s output of raw silk is produced in the Province of Kwangtung, where the principal districts from the standpoint of value of raw-silk production are Shuntak, Chungshan, Namhoi, Sunwui and Samshui. All the silk business of Kwangtung Province centers in Shuntak (south of Canton, in the Canton delta area). en https://www.jstor.org/stable/141001?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 1939 Field Observations on the Canton Delta of South China Glenn T. Trewartha Economic Geography 15 1 10.2307/141001 0013-0095 141001 470178454 8 Heart of the specialized silk area is the Shuntak District south and west of Canton where 70 per cent of the total land area is devoted to mulberry growing and over 90 per cent of the rural population is engaged in some phase of sericulture. […] To such a degree does this district represent the focus of sericulture within Kwangtung Province that 80 per cent of Canton’s banks are estimated to be financed with Shuntak capital. Heungshaan and Naamhoi Districts lying to the south and north of Shuntak respectively each have close to one-half the mulberry acreage of the last name district. en 1970 Lei De Wei Five Days Are Not Enough Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1979-07_18_7/ IX 2 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 39 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1970_9_2/page/39/ So we are all meeting together at the ferry pier, since we are going to Shuntak County, to a commune production brigade lying somewhere among all the waterways of the Pearl River Delta. en https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse 1972 completely revised China's Changing Map: National and Regional Development, 1949-71 Theodore Shabad Praeger Publishers 185 The most intensive breeding of silkworms in found in the areas of Fatshan and Shuntak, where cocoon crops are gathered six or seven times during the year. en 2007 Joe Studwell How to be a post-war godfather Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia https://archive.org/details/asiangodfathers00joes/ 1st American New York w:Atlantic Monthly Press 978-0-87113-968-9 636909772 55 https://archive.org/details/asiangodfathers00joes/page/55/ But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school. en April 6, 2021 Evelyn Hang Yin Hanford’s China Alley: A historic Chinatown in rural America https://web.archive.org/web/20210406083724/https://supchina.com/2021/04/06/hanfords-china-alley-a-historic-chinatown-in-rural-america/ 06 April 2021 SupChina The town of Hanford was formed in 1877 when the Southern Pacific Railroad extended into California’s San Joaquin Valley. Many Chinese laborers came to work on the tracks, and later stayed for farming. They were mostly from Sam Yup (zh 三邑 sānyì), the three former counties of Namhoi (zh 南海 nánhǎi), Poonyu (zh 番禺 pānyú) and Shuntak (zh 顺德 shùndé) in Canton — now known as Guǎngdōng zh 广东 — province. Translations county Chinese: Mandarin: cmn Japanese: ja Korean: ko References Anagrams en ahknstu Khatuns khatuns