- a variation of Guangdong.
Kwangtung
Britishnoun
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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
Compounding the problem, according to a broadcast from Kwangtung province this month, are party administrators on the communes who have set a bad example.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along the frontier in the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kwangtung, the Chinese have gathered an estimated 150,000 troops, some of them rushed from positions facing Taiwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kwangtung Radio announced that at Canton's Rubber Plant No. 7, "six former bourgeois owners" discharged during the Cultural Revolution have been rehired and assigned to administrative and production jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little south of Kinchou lies a narrow neck of land connecting the Kwangtung promontory with the mainland.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
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