Meanings
- Dated spelling of Guangzhou.
In the year 520 he at last landed at Kuang-chou in Southern China.
1955, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “The Zen Sect of Buddhism”, in Studies in Zen, Dell Publishing, page 133 more examples
At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.
1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143In an edict of 1851 (Tao-kuang 11), for example, the emperor authorized the provincial government of Kwangtung to encourage reclamation of uncultivated land in Kuang-chou, Chao-ch'ing, Shao-chou, Chia-ying, Lo-ting, Nan-hsiung, and Lien-chou.
1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 388The main rice-producing areas were Kuang-chou, Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou, Ying-te, Hsun-chou and Hsiang-chou.
1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62
Origin
- Mandarin廣州
- EnglishKuang-chou
From the Wade–Giles romanization Kuang³-chou¹ of Mandarin 廣州 (Guǎngzhōu).
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