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
Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces.
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
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
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 Wolfram Eberhard
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