Tungkuan

See also: Tung-kuan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 東莞 (Dōngguǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-kuan³.

Proper noun

Tungkuan

1. Alternative form of Dongguan
   • 1970, Union Research Service‎^[1], volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made […]

   • 1972 April, “Science in the Countryside”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume XXI, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

     FIFTY-THREE year-old Chou Chuang-nu, leader of the Chouwu brigade in the Fucheng commune in Kwangtung province’s Tungkuan county, put down his sickle and led me to a small granary.

   • 1978, Benedict Stavis, “The Cultural Revolution: Decade of Mechanization”, in The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China‎^[3], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210:

     In 1963 a commune in Tungkuan County, Kwangtung, about 40 km. east of Canton, got electric machinery for irrigation.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tungkuan.