Shun-te

English thumb|Map including SHUN-TE (SHUNTAK) zh 順德 (AMS, 1954) 10552568 Etymology From en cmn 順德, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Shun⁴-tê². Proper noun 1 1 en Shunde. en 1975 Katie Curtin Women in China https://archive.org/details/womeninchina00kati/ w:Pathfinder Press 0-87348-404-5 74-14166 612039918 15 https://archive.org/details/womeninchina00kati/page/15/ In the early nineteenth century an organized movement against marriage developed among women in the Shun-te district of Kwangtung. en 1986 w:Janice G. Raymond A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection https://archive.org/details/passionforfriend0000raym/ Boston w:Beacon Press 0-8070-6724-5 85-47942 803087560 124 https://archive.org/details/passionforfriend0000raym/page/124/ Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women. en https://archive.org/details/makingofmodernwo0000obri/ 2009 The Making of the Modern World 1450 to Present Diane O'Brien; Thomas O'Brien 3rd Custom Publishing 978-0-558-17286-2 1024081262 189 https://archive.org/details/makingofmodernwo0000obri/page/189/ In the more populous parts of the Pearl River Delta, local defense measures often sufficed to repel the pirates. On a foray into Shun-te the Black Fleet leader Kuo P'o-tai decided to bypass the country when he learned of the elite's preparations and moved farther upriver instead. en 2013 w:Vivienne Poy Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada https://books.google.com/books?id=lpNVz9NtvP4C w:McGill–Queen's University Press 978-0-7735-4149-8 859110845 223 https://books.google.com/books?id=lpNVz9NtvP4C&pg=PA223 With respect to economic contributions by the women in South China, particularly in the silk production area of the Pearl River Delta such as Shun-te hsien, there existed a marriage resistance culture among the women because of their involvement in the silk industry. Translations Shunde