Kuang-tung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 廣東 / 广东 (Guǎngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-tung¹.

Proper noun

Kuang-tung

1. Alternative form of Guangdong
   • 1887, Terrien de Lacouperie, Formosa Notes of MSS., Races and Languages‎^[2], volume 19, London: Trübner and Co., page 450:

     42. The boat population of Canton, also called Tan-Ka otherwise Tan families,² is also known as Kün-lun slaves, and they are said to be connected with some native tribes in the north of the Kuang-tung province, consequently in proximity to the above Kün-lun mountains of Kuangsi.

   • 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road‎^[3], London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.

   • 1967, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[4], Shoe String Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Were one to draw a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major "steps." The first would represent the Kuang-tung lowlands below about 1500-feet.

   • 1981, Huang Shu-min, Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan‎^[5], University Press of America, →ISBN, page 92:

     When Chinese from Fukien and Kuang-tung migrated to Taiwan, this warlike situation was obviously transplanted and was further aggravated by the even less efficient political control of the local government and the unique frontier conditions.

   • 2003, Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth : From Prehistory to Global Crisis‎^[6], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122‎^[7], page 139:

     In the southern mountain region the mixed deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed forest were barely touched, and wild elephants and the rhinoceros roamed the malarial jungles of the province of Kuang-tung in the ninth century; but that was to change with migration from the north that reached a new momentum after the tenth century.

Translations

Guangdong — see Guangdong

Further reading

• “Kuang-tung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.