Guandong

English

Proper noun

Guandong

1. Misspelling of Guangdong.
   • [1964 [1958], G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong‎^[1], Oxford University Press, page 267:

     The question of Kowloon City was discussed with Li Hung-chang, Viceroy of Kwantung^{[sic – meaning Kwangtung]} and Kwangsi Provinces, when he passed through the colony in July 1900. A Colonial Office official minuted on this, 'We have definitely decided not to allow the City to fall under Chinese jurisdiction, and have told the Chinese government so, and have passed an order in council including it in the New Territory, and the matter is at an end.' The Foreign Office arrangement of leaving Kowloon City as it was, was dropped, but Chinese opinion in Kwangtung Province continued to regard it as not forming part of the lease.]

   • 2008 November 7, Donny Kwok, “China's export hub to spend more amid slowdown: paper”, in Tomasz Janowski, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 October 2022, Business News‎^[3]:

     China’s export hub, the Guandong^{[sic – meaning Guangdong]} province, is set for a sharp slowdown this year under the weight of the global financial crisis, prompting its government to boost public investment, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Saturday.

   • 2010, A. Robert Lee, Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 178:

     Among quite the most striking of the assembled poems has to be “Aerogrammes,” a five-part sequence developed from Leong’s visit from Los Angeles to Sunwui County, Guandong^{[sic – meaning Guangdong]}, in 1984.

   • 2020 August 7, “China sentences fourth Canadian to death on drug charges”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 08 October 2020‎^[6]:

     Ye’s sentencing came a day after fellow Canadian Xu Weihong was given the death penalty by the Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate Court, also in Guandong^{[sic – meaning Guangdong]} province.