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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 廣東 / 广东 (Guǎngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-tung¹.[1][2]
Proper noun
Kuang-tung
- Alternative form of Guangdong
1887, Terrien de Lacouperie, Formosa Notes of MSS., Races and Languages, volume 19, London: Trübner and Co., page 450:42. The boat population of Canton, also called Tan-Ka otherwise Tan families,² is also known as Kün-lun slaves, and they are said to be connected with some native tribes in the north of the Kuang-tung province, consequently in proximity to the above Kün-lun mountains of Kuangsi.
1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
1967, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:Were one to draw a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major "steps." The first would represent the Kuang-tung lowlands below about 1500-feet.
1981, Huang Shu-min, Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 92:When Chinese from Fukien and Kuang-tung migrated to Taiwan, this warlike situation was obviously transplanted and was further aggravated by the even less efficient political control of the local government and the unique frontier conditions.
2003, Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth : From Prehistory to Global Crisis, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122, page 139:In the southern mountain region the mixed deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed forest were barely touched, and wild elephants and the rhinoceros roamed the malarial jungles of the province of Kuang-tung in the ninth century; but that was to change with migration from the north that reached a new momentum after the tenth century.
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References
- ^ Guangdong, (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuang-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ “Languages Other than English”, in The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 652: “Wade-Giles Postal atlas Pinyin Kuang-tung Kwangtung Guangdong”
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