Kuang-tung
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 廣東／广东 (Guǎngdōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-tung¹.[1]
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.
- 1967, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, 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 1169863121, 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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Translations
Guangdong — see Guangdong
References
- Guangdong, (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuang-tung, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Kuang-tung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.