Dongguan
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See also: Dōngguǎn
English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東莞／东莞 (Dōngguǎn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dongguan
- A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
- 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
- Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.
- 2014 March 6, Edward Wong, “Red Lights Dim in China’s Sin City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 March 2014, Asia Pacific:
- China is undergoing the harshest anti-vice campaign the government has mounted in years, and the crackdown is taking a toll on the economy of Dongguan, a southern city of more than eight million people. It is a manufacturing center for the export business and a Mecca for migrant workers, but it is also the nation’s sin city. Now, the red-light industry here is blushing a deep pink.
- 2015 April 24, Euan McKirdy, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 April 2015:
- In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongguan.
Synonyms
Translations
a city of China
Further reading
- “Dongguan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Dongguan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1043, column 3