Pearl River

English Etymology 1 Pearl River (China) en zh 珠江 pearl river Proper noun 1 Pearl River en major river in southern c/China. en https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1211unse/ 1843 January Journal of Occurrences : dispatches from Kiying : arrival of I'lipu ; shipwrecked Japanese XII 1 w:The Chinese Repository Canton 56 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1211unse/page/56/ Pirates have of late become so bold and murderous in their attacks upon the small sailing craft found in the delta of the Pearl river, and the islands interjacent, as to arouse the Chinese government to take strong measures to suppress and disperse them. en 1969 w:Ezra Vogel Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968 https://archive.org/details/cantonundercommu00voge_0/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-09475-1 70-91631 444542084 132 https://archive.org/details/cantonundercommu00voge_0/page/132 The task of directing thousands of pushcarts and tiny handicraft shops and millions of tiny farms and of controlling the flow of crucial supplies created headaches for officials everywhere and the Pearl River Delta area was justly famous for the flowering of tiny enterprises. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-04-25_17_16/ April 25, 1976 L. Chen Mao's word is unanimous vote? Free China Weekly XVII 16 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-04-25_17_16/page/n2/ A Chinese-language broadcast from Moscow said the Tienanmen crowds were indeed against Mao but the burning of vehicles and building was started by the Maoists to provide themselves with excuses for stepped-up suppression.We don’t know whether this was the case, but we have learned that some 50,000 Peiping students have been sent to rural and frontier areas since the incident, that corpses have been floating down the Pearl River from Canton, and that the Maoists have been crying out savagely. en November 19, 2021 China Evergrande resumes construction on 63 projects in Pearl River delta https://web.archive.org/web/20211119051651/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-resumes-construction-63-projects-pearl-river-delta-2021-11-19/ 19 November 2021 w:Reuters Debt-laden real estate developer China Evergrande (3333.HK) has resumed construction of 63 projects in the southern Pearl River delta, a regional subsidiary said on Friday. en Synonyms en Pearl, en Canton, en Great River Translations river in China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 珠江 zyu1 gong1 Mandarin: cmn 珠江 Zhū Jiāng Hindi: hi मोती नदी m Hungarian: hu Gyöngy-folyó Korean: ko 주강 Mongolian: mn Portuguese: pt Rio das Pérolas m Russian: ru Жемчужная река Tibetan: bo Uyghur: ug Vietnamese: vi Châu Giang Zhuang: za Cuhgyangh Further reading Pearl River pn Pearl en 1952 Canton River or Pearl River Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 326 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/326/ 3 en 1998 Pearl River Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2388 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2388/ 2 Etymology 2 Proper noun Pearl River en river or place c/USA: en with en the en river s/Mississippi and s/Louisiana. en town par/St. Tammany Parish s/Louisiana. en census-designated place co/Neshoba County s/Mississippi. en hamlet/and/CDP in the town of x/Orangetown co/Rockland County s/New York. TopoZone: Pearl River, New York Derived terms en Pearl River County References Further reading Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana) Pearl River, Louisiana Pearl River, Mississippi Pearl River, New York