Citations:Kwangtung

English citations of Kwangtung

Map including part of 廣東省 KWANGTUNG PROVINCE (AMS, 1954)

• 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

  The river next in size to the Hwang-ho and Yang-tsze-keang, is the Se-keang or Western river, which rises in the mountains of Yunnan, and passing under various names through that province and the adjoining one of Kwangse, enters Kwangtung, where it unites with the Pih-keang, or Northern river, and with a minor stream, at San-shwuy, or ‘the three streams,’ a little to the west of Canton.

• 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan‎^[2], Canton, page 17:

  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.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[3], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:

  On June 15, the General Headquarters in Canton was expanded to become the National Government, and the Party forces were renamed the National Revolutionary Forces. Thenceforth Canton and the unified province of Kwangtung became the base of our National Revolution.

• 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924‎^[4], Columbia University Press, 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."

• 1979 August 26, “Movements gaining momentum”, in Free China Weekly‎^[5], volume XX, number 33, Taipei, page 3:

  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.

• 1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection‎^[6], Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, 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.

• 2011, Lisa See, Dreams of Joy‎^[7], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 272:

  "WHERE WERE YOU born?" Superintendent Wu asks again.
  "Yin Bo Village in Kwangtung province," I answer.