Meaning of Kuang-tung | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“42. The boat population of Canton, also called Tan-Ka otherwise Tan families,² is also known as Kün-lun slaves, and they are said to be connected with some native tribes in the north of the Kuang-tung province, consequently in proximity to the above Kün-lun mountains of Kuangsi.”

“We know⟳ that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.”

“Were one to draw⟳ a profile of generalized altitudes of the landmass of Ling-nan and Kuei-chou Yun-nan in a southeast-northwest direction, the profile that emerges would represent⟳ a step-like formation from the sea to the Tibetan Plateau with five major "steps." The first would represent⟳ the Kuang-tung lowlands below about 1500-feet.”

“When Chinese from Fukien and Kuang-tung migrated to Taiwan, this warlike situation was obviously transplanted and was further aggravated by the even less efficient political control⟳ of the local government and the unique frontier conditions.”

“In the southern mountain region the mixed deciduous and evergreen broad-leafed forest were barely touched, and wild elephants and the rhinoceros roamed the malarial jungles of the province of Kuang-tung in the ninth century; but that was to change⟳ with migration from the north that reached a new momentum after the tenth century.”

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