Yeungkong
English
Map including YANG-CHIANG (YEUNGKONG) 陽江 (AMS, 1954) →OCLC
Etymology
From Cantonese 陽江／阳江 (joeng4 gong1).
Proper noun
Yeungkong
- Synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name
- 1988, Wiest, Jean-Paul, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 87-32068, OCLC 837981550, OL 2401827M, page 54:
- The city of Kongmoon was finally chosen over Yeungkong as mission headquarters because its location on the West River made it a better center for communications.
- 1993, Penny Lernoux, Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters, Orbis Books, published 2012, →ISBN, LCCN 93-36831, OCLC 1073552237, page 43:
- But the robbery was no joke—the women lost a year’s supply of food for their mission in Yeungkong, in addition to all their clothing and books.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yeungkong.
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