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
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
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
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
It seems that from this period on not only merchants but also farmers began to migrate southwards into the area of the present provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi and as far as Tonking.
From A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] by Eberhard, Wolfram
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