Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Dongguan.
In 1963 a commune in Tungkuan County, Kwangtung, about 40 km. east of Canton, got electric machinery for irrigation.
1978, Benedict Stavis, “The Cultural Revolution: Decade of Mechanization”, in The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2102 more examples
In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made[…]
1970, Union Research Service, volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19FIFTY-THREE year-old Chou Chuang-nu, leader of the Chouwu brigade in the Fucheng commune in Kwangtung province’s Tungkuan county, put down his sickle and led me to a small granary.
1972 April, “Science in the Countryside”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6
Origin
From Mandarin 東莞 (Dōngguǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-kuan³.
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