Citations:Guangdong

English citations of Guangdong

• [1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 84:

  Fo-kyen is bounded by Che-kyang on the North, Kyang-ſi on the Weſt, Quang-tong on the South, and on the Eaſt by the Sea of China.]

• 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Women: Half of Heaven”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎^[2], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

  After the break-up of the 1924-1927 United Front, the Chinese Communist Party set up Soviets—liberated districts— in several parts of South China. One of the earliest liberated areas, organized in 1927-1928, was in the Hailufeng District of Guangdong Province.

• 1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “The Labor and Peasant Movements Before 1926”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927‎^[3], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 222:

  By November 1923, Tan was back across the provincial boundary in Guangdong, powerless to aid the peasants. Zhao Heng-ti dispatched a close associate, Zhao He-wu, with a battalion of soldiers to take care of the problem.

• 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎^[4], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:

  If the United States revoked MFN status, tariffs would skyrocket on the goods such as textiles, shoes, and toys that are primarily produced by private enterprises. Coastal provinces, such as Guangdong near Hong Kong and Fukien near Taiwan, that have served as the beachhead for free-market economics would suffer the worst blow.