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Kwangchow
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 廣州.Guangzhou, conventional Canton or Kwangchow, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Pronunciation
en /ˈkwɑŋˈt͡ʃoʊ/ GA unaspirated
en /kwæŋˈt͡ʃəʊ/ RP unaspirated
Proper noun
en Guangzhou.
en https://archive.org/details/thisiscommunistc0000unse/mode 1968 This is Communist China Robert Trumbull David McKay Company, Inc. New York 963449614 97 https://archive.org/details/thisiscommunistc0000unse/page/96/mode/ Red Guards whom he met in Peking, Shanghai, and Kwangchow were bright and cheerful and full of self-confidence, and he could explain this by the fact that they are children of peasant soldiers who have become a sort of privileged class since the establishment of the Communist regime.
en https://archive.org/details/tradingwithchina00mobi/mode 1973 Trading with China J. Mark Mobius; Gerhard F. Simmel Arco Publishing Company, Inc. 891557406 45 https://archive.org/details/tradingwithchina00mobi/page/44/mode/ Although foreign companies are beginning to have an opportunity to show their products in China through national industrial fairs in Peking, negotiation for as much as one-half of all China's foreign trade is done at Kwangchow. Business firms interested or engaged in trade with China should make a point of attending these fairs regularly.
en https://archive.org/details/sovietchineserel00bori/mode/2up 1975 Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970 O. B. Borisov; B. T. Koloskov Indiana University Press 463014085 225 https://archive.org/details/sovietchineserel00bori/page/224/mode/ Faced with the evolving situation, in September 1962 the Soviet government decided to close the consulates general of the USSR in Harbin and Shanghai, and then the offices of the trade representatives of the USSR in Dal’nyy, Shanghai, and Kwangchow (Canton), and the “Sovfrakht” agencies in Chinese railroad stations in Manchouli (Lupin) and Tsinan.
en https://archive.org/details/cancerinchina0000unse/mode 1978 Cancer in China Henry S. Kaplan; Patricia Jones Tsuchitani Alan R. Liss, Inc. 4135643 7 https://archive.org/details/cancerinchina0000unse/page/6/mode/ During our five days in Kwangtung Province in southern China, we visited Chung Shan County, an area of high incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, and the city of Kwangchow, where a tumor institute and tumor hospital are affiliated with the Chung Shan Medical College. […] The Chung Shan County Hospital is located in the county seat of Shih-ch’i, which is about 70 km south of Kwangchow on the Pearl River delta.
en April 4, 1982 Scandal triggers friction https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-04-04_23_13/ Free China Weekly XXII 13 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-04-04_23_13/page/n2/ Quoting intelligence reports, the source said Wang Wei-ching was chief of Kwangchow City’s "telecommunications bureau" when he was arrested last February for smuggling electronic appliances and watches....The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.
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