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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