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Dongguan
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Dōngguǎn
English
Alternative forms
en Tungkuan Tung-kuan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ 1, 5 Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dongguan/Tung-kuan romanization of the en cmn - 東莞.
Pronunciation
en /ˈdʊŋˈɡwɑn/
do͝ong′gwän′Tungkun 1960 2 Tungkun (do͝ong′go͝on), Mandarin Tung-kuan (do͝ong′gwän′),
en Dong guan
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sapaa-Dongguan.wav US
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Guangdong in southeastern c/China.
en 1970 Union Research Service https://books.google.com/books?id=hpsQAQAAMAAJ 59 0049-5301 1695888 19 In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made on
en 2008 w:Leslie T. Chang Leslie_T._Chang#Factory_Girls Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China https://archive.org/details/factorygirlsfrom00chan_0/ New York w:Spiegel & Grau 978-0-385-52017-1 2008012880 963510224 29 https://archive.org/details/factorygirlsfrom00chan_0/page/29/ Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.
en MARCH 6, 2014 Edward Wong Edward Wong Red Lights Dim in China’s Sin City https://web.archive.org/web/20140307173713/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/red-lights-dim-in-chinas-sin-city.html 07 March 2014 Asia Pacific China is undergoing the harshest anti-vice campaign the government has mounted in years, and the crackdown is taking a toll on the economy of Dongguan, a southern city of more than eight million people. It is a manufacturing center for the export business and a Mecca for migrant workers, but it is also the nation’s sin city. Now, the red-light industry here is blushing a deep pink.
en 24 April 2015 Euan McKirdy What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up https://web.archive.org/web/20150424060325/https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/asia/china-funeral-strippers/index.html 24 April 2015 w:CNN In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
en
Synonyms
obsolete from Cantonese en Tungkun, en Tungkoon
Translations
a city of China
Arabic: ar دُونْغْقْوَان m dunḡqwān, ar دُونْغْغْوَان m dunḡḡwān
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 東莞 dung1 gun2
Mandarin: cmn 東莞 Dōngguǎn
Hungarian: hu Tungkuan
Japanese: ja 東莞 とうかん, Tōkan, ja ドングァン Dongwan
Korean: ko 둥완
Macedonian: mk Дунгуа́н m
Russian: ru Дунгуа́нь m
Vietnamese: vi Đông Hoản
References
Further reading
en 2008 Dongguan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1043 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1043/ 3