Meaning of Kwangtung | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Nan Yueh is the old Kingdom of Co-chin-China which in A.D. 222 was divided into Chiao-Chou or Tonquin and what is now the area covered by Kwangtung and Kwangsi.”

“On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March⟳ 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become⟳ director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control⟳ himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed⟳ tears."”

“The intelligence reports also said that some 10,000 intellectual youths, who had been sent to rural areas for hard labor and have⟳ returned to the cities, staged a demonstration recently in front of the "revolutionary committee" office in Yangchun County, Kwangtung Province.”

“Writer Ta Chen, in a statistical study⟳ of industrial labor in China in 1933, recorded that 66.6 percent of the total number⟳ of workers in the four main industrial regions of Kwangtung were women. In Shun-te, 81.2 percent of the labor force⟳ were women.”

“"WHERE WERE YOU born?" Superintendent Wu asks again. "Yin Bo Village in Kwangtung province," I answer⟳.”

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