Tsamkong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 湛江 (zaam3 gong1).

Proper noun

Tsamkong

1. Synonym of Zhanjiang
   • 1953, Gretta Palmer, God's Underground in Asia‎^[1], New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204:

     In August Fathers Robert LeBas and Bernard Blusson of France were expelled to French Indo-China, along with six Sisters from Tsamkong, Kwangtung.

   • 1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China‎^[2], Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     For example, Canton’s Southern Daily frequently carried articles emphasizing the importance of natural science, and associating it with atheism, in the mid- 1950s.⁶ Even the West Kwangtung Peasants' Report (Yüeh-hsi Nung-min Pao) had writers in Tsamkong to dwell on this theme: “This newspaper has told the peasants that ‘gods and spirits’ [shen kuei] and ‘fate’ [t‘ien ming] are all fake. Anybody who is sick must call a doctor. If there is a natural disaster, we must rely on our own strength, organize ourselves under the leadership of the Party, and walk the road of mutual aid and cooperation."⁷

   • 2011, Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie‎^[3], Doubleday, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

     West lay China, Yan's country.
     "Which part are you from?" I asked him, me and him on deck one morning patching our clothes, looking towards the coast. "Are we near your home, Yan?"
     He shook his head. "Far south of here," he replied, "Tsamkong." His black hair was growing long and parted above his brow in two thick waves.

Further reading

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