- a variation of Guangdong.
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
Kou's story: TWO years ago, Kou had been a carefree student, the son of a small landowner in Kwangtung Province's fertile Chungshan County.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hungry people from Tientsin sneak into the fields at night to steal corn from the stalks, and Kwangtung villagers are reportedly eating bark from the trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in at least one Kwangtung commune, when the inhabitants of the Happy Homes die, their bodies are dropped into a chemically treated pool and converted to fertilizer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In America we come in contact chiefly with Chinese of one class, and usually from the one province of Kwangtung.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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