South China

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

South China

1. Southern China.
   • 1927 November 13, Hallett Abend, “GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA; China, Russia and Japan Bid for Supremacy of Vast Domain, Realizing It May End in War. DAIREN A SPOTLESS CITY Built by Japan, It Is Clean and Modern In Contrast to Dirty and Inefficient Towns of South. GRIM STRUGGLE ON TO RULE MANCHURIA”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2024, EDITORIALE, page 1‎^[2]:

     DAIREN, South Manchuria, Oct. 12. -- South China with its Communists, the Yangtse Valley with rampant anti-foreignism and incessant civil warfare and Peking with Marshal Chang Tso-lin attempting to consolidate his dictatorship and found a stable central Government -- these seem to be the major constituents of the Chinese problem until one visits Manchuria.

   • 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle‎^[3], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 45–46:

     Confronted with the challenge of economic restructuring in the context of the noninterventionist policy of the Hong Kong government, local manufacturers had amore limited ability to pursue technological upgrading than their counterparts in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore had. Their survival strategy was to take advantage of the new availability of the massive supply of cheap labor and cheap industrial land in South China.

   • 2001, Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China‎^[4], Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89‎^[5]:

     The seasonal change of the winds, in the Asian monsoon system, drove long distance mobility on the south China coast.

   • 2007, Martha L. Charles Pepper, “Missionary Training, 1893-1896”, in All the Way to China: The story of Isaac L. Hess and his Landis cousins who went to South China as pioneer missionaries in the 1890s‎^[6], Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

     As they spent much time in prayer for the nearly eight million people of Kwangsi, South China, God began calling some of them to that field of service so that within the next five years seventeen from the same class were serving in South China.

2. A village in China, Kennebec, Maine.
   • 2007 January 20, Sarah Mahoney, “In U.S., women go wild for hunting”, in Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 19 August 2022, U.S. News‎^[8]:

     Helga Cotta, 57, from South China, Maine, said: “Hunting season is like my vacation. It’s so solitary, you can leave all your problems at home and just go out and watch the woods come alive around you in the morning.”

Translations

region in Asia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 華南／华南 (zh) (Huánán)

• Japanese: 華南 (ja) (Kanan)