Kwangtung

English thumb|Map including part of zh 廣東省 KWANGTUNG PROVINCE (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 廣東. Pronunciation en /ˈkwɑŋˈtʊŋ/ unaspirated GA en /ˈkwæŋˈtʊŋ/ unaspirated RP gwängʹdo͝ongʹ hyperforeignen 1952 Kwangtung or Kuang-tung Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 998 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/998/ 1 kwängʹto͝ongʹ kwǎngʹto͝ongʹen 1979 Kwang·tung The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 396 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/396/ 2 Proper noun en Guangdong. en https://archive.org/details/lycheelungan00grofrich/ 1921 The Lychee and Lungan George Weidman Groff Canton 17 https://archive.org/details/lycheelungan00grofrich/page/n34 Nan Yueh is the old Kingdom of Co-chin-China which in A.D. 222 was divided into Chiao-Chou or Tonquin and what is now the area covered by Kwangtung and Kwangsi. en https://archive.org/details/earlychiangkaish0000lohp/ 1971 The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924 Pichon Pei Yung Loh w:Columbia University Press 1 https://archive.org/details/earlychiangkaish0000lohp/page/1 On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears." en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-08-26_20_33/ August 26, 1979 Movements gaining momentum Free China Weekly XX 33 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-08-26_20_33/page/n2/ The intelligence reports also said that some 10,000 intellectual youths, who had been sent to rural areas for hard labor and have returned to the cities, staged a demonstration recently in front of the "revolutionary committee" office in Yangchun County, Kwangtung Province. en https://archive.org/details/passionforfriend0000raym/ 1986 A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection w:Janice G. Raymond w:Beacon Press Boston 0-8070-6724-5 124 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/dreamsofjoy0000seel/ 2011 978 1 4088 2229 6 w:Dreams of Joy w:Lisa See Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury 272 https://archive.org/details/dreamsofjoy0000seel/page/272/ "WHERE WERE YOU born?" Superintendent Wu asks again."Yin Bo Village in Kwangtung province," I answer. en Derived terms en Kwangtung ware References Further reading pn