This was much too plain speaking for the Imperial devotee, and Han Yü was sentenced to death. On the remonstrance of his fellow-ministers this sentence was commuted, and he was banished under the guise of an appointment to the post of governor of what was then the barbarous region near Swatow. Here he taught the barbarous people, and is still remembered as their greatest benefactor. His expulsion from the demon of ignorance is symbolised in a legend of his expulsion from the rivers of a huge crocodile. The remonstrance which he addressed to it, which is to be found among his works, is a curious combination of solemnity and humour.
1920, Irving National Bank, Trading with the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient: Policies: Methods: Advertising: Credits: Financing: Documents: Deliveries[2], 2nd edition, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 265:
Bangkok is twenty-five miles from the mouth of the River Menam Chow Phya. The usual route to the city is from Singapore, by steamer or rail, though several shipping lines carry cargo direct. There are also steamship connections with Hong Kong, direct or via Swatow, a coastal service between Bangkok and the ports of French Indo-China, and occasional sailings to Java.
1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 46:
With Waichow subdued and the enemy troops in the entire area surrendering or in headlong flight, Chiang struck at another malcontent general and captured the coastal city of Swatow.
1939 July 21, “JAPANESE OCCUPY A KWANGTUNG PORT; Swabue Had Taken Swatow's Trade--Shansi Drive Checked”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23[5]:
Swabue, a Kwangtung Province port midway between Hong Kong and Swatow, has been occupied by Japanese forces after naval and aerial bombardments which demolished Chinese shore defenses.
1977 May 15, “Political executions scare mainlanders”, in Free China Weekly[6], volume XVIII, number 19, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
A "public trial" at the "people’s park" in Swatow, Kwantung[sic – meaning Kwangtung] on April 5, the anniversary of the Tienanmen riots in Peiping, was followed by execution of 11 citizens.
2015, Stephen Harding, Last to Die : A Defeated Empire, A Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II[7], Da Capo Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25:
There were none, and the only evidence of hostile action was some inaccurate anti-aircraft fire far below the F-7B as it made landfall just south of the first target, the port at Swatow.
2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 03, 2016, Asia Pacific[9]:
Yet “the sky is high and the emperor far away,” runs a popular saying. Shantou, a fishing port formerly known as Swatow that is now a manufacturing hub of 13 million people, lies more than 1,100 miles south of the political capital in Beijing.
2023 May 1, Aiqing Fang, “A complex family legacy”, in China Daily[10], archived from the original on 2023-05-01, Travel[11]:
Around the ancient port of Zhanglin, in Chenghai district of Shantou, once known as Swatow, in Guangdong province, lush camphor, banyan, papaya and sweet-scented Osmanthus trees shield outdated dwellings and courtyards.
Ce digne Chinois, d’une excellente famille du nord de l’Empire, possédait, comme ses compatriotes, de remarquables aptitudes pour le commerce. Pendant les premières années de sa carrière, tout ce que produit ce riche territoire si peuplé, papiers de Swatow, soieries de Sou-Tchéou, sucres candis de Formose, thés de Hankow et de Foochow, fers du Honan, cuivre rouge ou jaune de la province de Yunanne, tout fut pour lui élément de négoce et matière à trafic.
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