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Swabue
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English
Etymology
From the en zh-postal -en 1914 Index to Map of China https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Shanghai Far Fastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 82 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/82/ of en nan-tws 汕尾 suan3 bhuê2.
Pronunciation
en /swɑːˈbwɛ/
Proper noun
en chiefly dated or historical en Shanwei: the Teochew-derived name.
en 1924 Decennial Reports: On the Trade, Industries, etc., of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on the Condition and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces (1912–21) I: Northern and Yangtze Ports Shanghai Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 176–177 https://books.google.com/books?id=7G47AQAAMAAJ The first discovery of the ore was near Swabue in 1909; it contained 30 to 40 per cent. of tungsten.
en 1977 Roy Hofheinz, Jr. The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928 Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England Harvard University Press 0-674-08391-1 76-56097 1010842319 7692121M 264 https://books.google.com/books?id=dtFS_NmqOtAC British missionaries had been driven out of Swabue as early as 1925, at the beginning of the Hong Kong-Canton strike.
en 1985 Fernando Galbiati P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet Stanford, California Stanford University Press 0804712190 11187418 317 https://books.google.com/books?id=kq6KxBbeiRsC Up to December 13, the Italian priests in Swabue went unmolested—they had even been invited to stay on and collaborate.
en 2003 Dan Pinck Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China 978-0-615-36048-5 200201421 1132331548 146 https://books.google.com/books?id=bhlP9iDWebwC When they take him out in morning they lead him on short winding road by the sea to Swabue. The general's guerrillas cannot attack because they don't have equipment and besides there are hardly no trees or places to hide on way to Swabue.
en 2017 Henry Sze Hang Choi The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period Leiden Brill 978-90-04-34116-6 994643156 191 https://books.google.com/books?id=LeEqDwAAQBAJ However, the Kowloon Customs argued that although the collection of annual tax from these steam tugs was not under its jurisdiction, it also argued that because Hoifung county, where Swatow and Swabue were located, was a much poorer location, where trading activities could not compare with Tungkun, it was reasonable for Zhou to pay less annual tax than Chen did.
en 2017 Li Zhiguang (zh 李智广); et al. 华南沿海地区海啸影响数值模拟与分析 Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Tsunami Impacts on the Coastal Area of South China http://ch.whu.edu.cn/cn/article/doi/10.13203/j.whugis20150354 武汉大学学报 ● 信息科学版 42 12 10.13203/j.whugis20150354 1671-8860 823896017 It costs 3.6 h to get to Qiongzhou Strait and the south of Fujian Province, and the maximum wave can reach 1.5-2.0 m. 2.6 h later, the region of Hong Kong, Macao and Swabue of Guangdong Province can detect the lead waves, and the maximum wave in this region is about 2.5 m. https://web.archive.org/web/20261011084654/https://ch.whu.edu.cn/cn/article/doi/10.13203/j.whugis20150354 11 October 2026
See also
en Swatow
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