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1906, John Jackson, Lepers, Thirty-one Years' Work Among Them, →OCLC, page 365:
The city of Tungkun lies not far from Canton, and outside its walls is one of the innumerable colonies of lepers to be found in that vast Empire.
1948, American Mission to Lepers, China's Leprosy, →OCLC, page 13:
VILLAGE AT TUNGKUN What can be done has already been demonstrated to a great extent at the German Rhenish Mission at Tungkun, forty miles outside Canton.[...]There is a strong Christian program at Tungkun, a happy spirit of fellowship and community cooperation.
References
^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese)., Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 97: “The romanisation adopted is[…]that used by the Chinese Post Office.[…]Tungkun ... ... 東莞縣 Kwangtung ... 廣東 ... 23.0 N 113.51E”
