Kuang-chou

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English

Map including KUANG-CHOU (CANTON) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization Kuang³-chou¹ of Mandarin 廣州 / 广州 (Guǎngzhōu).[1]

Proper noun

Kuang-chou

  1. Alternative form of Guangzhou
    • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143:
      At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.
    • 1955, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “The Zen Sect of Buddhism”, in Studies in Zen, Dell Publishing, page 13:
      In the year 520 he at last landed at Kuang-chou in Southern China.
    • 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 388:
      In an edict of 1851 (Tao-kuang 11), for example, the emperor authorized the provincial government of Kwangtung to encourage reclamation of uncultivated land in Kuang-chou, Chao-ch'ing, Shao-chou, Chia-ying, Lo-ting, Nan-hsiung, and Lien-chou.
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
      The main rice-producing areas were Kuang-chou, Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou, Ying-te, Hsun-chou and Hsiang-chou.

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References

  1. ^ Guangzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Kuang-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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