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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 東莞 (Dōngguǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-kuan³.
Proper noun
Tungkuan
- Alternative form of Dongguan.
1970, Union Research Service, volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made
1972 April, “Science in the Countryside”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:FIFTY-THREE year-old Chou Chuang-nu, leader of the Chouwu brigade in the Fucheng commune in Kwangtung province’s Tungkuan county, put down his sickle and led me to a small granary.
1978, Benedict Stavis, “The Cultural Revolution: Decade of Mechanization”, in The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210:In 1963 a commune in Tungkuan County, Kwangtung, about 40 km. east of Canton, got electric machinery for irrigation.
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