Kwangtung

English

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

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwängʹto͝ongʹ, kwǎngʹto͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Kwangtung

1. Alternative form of Guangdong
   • 1921, George Weidman Groff, The Lychee and Lungan‎^[1], 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.

   • 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], 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^[5], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 272:

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

Derived terms

• Kwangtung ware

References

• “Kwangtung, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Kwangtung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kwangtung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.