Shun-te

From Mandarin 順德／顺德 (Shùndé), Wade–Giles romanization: Shun⁴-tê².

Shun-te

1. Alternative form of Shunde
   • 1975, Katie Curtin, Women in China‎, Pathfinder Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

     In the early nineteenth century an organized movement against marriage developed among women in the Shun-te district of Kwangtung.

   • 1986, Janice G. Raymond, A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection‎, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

     Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force were women.

   • 2009, Diane O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien, The Making of the Modern World 1450 to Present‎, 3rd edition, Custom Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 189:

     In the more populous parts of the Pearl River Delta, local defense measures often sufficed to repel the pirates. On a foray into Shun-te the Black Fleet leader Kuo P'o-tai decided to bypass the country when he learned of the elite's preparations and moved farther upriver instead.

   • 2013, Vivienne Poy, Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada‎, McGill–Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:

     With respect to economic contributions by the women in South China, particularly in the silk production area of the Pearl River Delta such as Shun-te hsien, there existed a marriage resistance culture among the women because of their involvement in the silk industry.