Kwangtung
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It begins some 50 years before Maxine Kingston was born, some 30 years before the revolution, in the Hong family compound in a peasant village in Kwangtung Province.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
One old comrade-in-arms, General Hsu Shih-yu, offered him sanctuary in a Kwangtung province resort that was reserved for the military elite.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a batch of 1,200 other prisoners, Chan was shipped into the mountains of northern Kwangtung to work twelve hours a day on a skimpy ration of rice.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served.
From Time Magazine Archive
Absent from home forty-eight hours; twenty-four consumed in travelling via Air-Line; twelve in pedestrian excursion through the Kwangtung country in China; and twelve in pecuniary negotiations and sleep at the British and American Coffee-House, Canton.
From John Whopper The Newsboy by Clark, Thomas M. (Thomas March)
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