Meaning of Shun-te | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“In the early nineteenth century an organized movement against marriage developed among women in the Shun-te district of Kwangtung.”

“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.”

“In the more populous parts of the Pearl River Delta, local defense measures often sufficed to repel the pirates. On a foray into Shun-te the Black Fleet leader Kuo P'o-tai decided to bypass the country when he learned of the elite's preparations and moved farther upriver instead.”

“With respect⟳ to economic contributions by the women in South China, particularly in the silk production area of the Pearl River Delta such as Shun-te hsien, there existed a marriage resistance culture among the women because of their involvement in the silk industry.”

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