Kuang-shui

English

Map including Kuang-shui (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 廣水／广水 (Guǎngshuǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Kuang³-shui³.

Proper noun

Kuang-shui

1. Alternative form of Guangshui
   • 1902 January, Dr. G. W. Guinness, “En Route for Shae-k'i-tien, Ho-nan”, in China's Millions‎^[1], China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 86:

     The train journey was cold, I was quite thankful for wraps. I had good opportunity for conversation with one and another en route. Owing to a strong wind the train went slowly a good part of the way, and it was fairly late when we arrived at Kuang-shui.

   • 1924, Guide to China‎^[2], 2nd (Revised) edition, volume D, Japanese Government Railways, →OCLC, page 106:

     Kouang-choui or Kuang-shui (1,061 km.-659.3 m.) is another solitary place, 10 m. from Ying-shan-hsien.

   • 1988, Frank H. H. King, “Railways — Rights Recovery, Finance, and the Consortium, 1905-1911”, in The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War, 1895-1918: Wayfoong, the Focus of Wealth (The History of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation)‎^[3], volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 439–440:

     The purposes of the Hukuang Railways loan were (i) redemption of as yet unredeemed Gold Bonds with a par value of $Gold 2,222,000 issued by the American China Development Company (ACDC) and (ii) construction of a Government main line (a) of 900 kms from Wuchang, the capital of Hupei, through Yo-chou and Changsha, the capital of Hunan, to a point in the District of Yi-chang-hsien in the Prefecture of Ch’en-chou on the southern boundary of Hunan, where it would connect with the Kwangtung section being built north from Canton, (b) of 600 kms from Kuang-shui, Hupei, connecting there with the Peking—-Hankow line, to Ichang, and (c) of 900 kms from Ichang to Kuei-chou-fu in Szechuan, the Hupei section of the Szechuan—Hankow Railway.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuang-shui.

Translations

Guangshui — see Guangshui