Tung-kuan

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English

Map including TUNG-KUAN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Tung-kuan

  1. Alternative form of Dongguan
    • 1975, Roderick Stewart, Bethune, General Publishing Co. Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 122:
      The next day the train to Tung-kuan was stopped and evacuated several times as Japanese planes flew overhead. In Tung-kuan they waited thirty-six hours in an empty mail car for the train to Lin Fen.
    • 1985, Rubie S. Watson, “The development of the Teng lineage: Ha Tsuen's early history”, in Inequality among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
      Elite interests, especially those of the Teng, were well served by the construction of a large ancestral hall in Tung-kuan City. This hall, Tou Ch'ing T'ang, served Teng living throughout Hsin-an and Tung-kuan counties....This hall provided the Teng of Tung-kuan and Hsin-an counties with an institutional framework for united activities.
    • 2009, Diane O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien, The Making of the Modern World 1450 to Present, 3rd edition, Custom Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
      Chang Pao's Red Fleet experienced similar setbacks. On August 18 they were badly beaten when they struck at the village of Pao-t'ang-hsia, in Tung-kuan county.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tung-kuan.

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