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
Proxy In Canton, China, because Shih Kwangtung could not come from Singapore for his marriage ceremony, the bride's parents selected a handsome rooster to take his place, married her off to it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In Kwangtung, according to one broadcast, entrenched followers of the radicals infiltrated an investigation of their own affairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
And later the Kwangtung men arrive, each with a red ticket, and they too ask no questions, but just hunt up their things all properly marked, and then proceed to make themselves comfortable.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball
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