Shanwei

alternative Shan-wei

1. A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.

   He left the junk at Shan-wei in the province of Canton, and from there took a boat which conveyed him to Macao.

   [1854, John Kesson, chapter XVI, in The Cross and the Dragon, or the Fortunes of Christianity in China: with notices of the Christian Missions and Missionaries, and some account of the Chinese secret societies, Smith, Elder, and Co., →OCLC, page 229

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   He had reached the retirement age of fifty-five in 1957, after being first employed by the Government as a young man. Born in Kowloon about 1903, he was taken back to Shan Wei in eastern Kwangtung (Fig. 3.1) at age eight for his primary education comprising four or five years in a private school with over a hundred students.

   [1975, Cornelius Osgood, “The Man Who Retired”, in The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community, volume 1, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370

   Residents reached by telephone said Dongzhou, a farming and fishing village 14 miles southeast of Shanwei city, in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, was quiet Friday for the second night in a row. But checkpoints were reinforced on roads leading in and out of the village, leaving its 10,000 residents blocked in unless they traveled by sea or walked circuitous routes.

   2005 December 9, Edward Cody, “Chinese Police Intensify Lockdown of Villagers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2024

   The government of Shanwei, the prefecture-level city that includes Wukan, later blamed news media outlets from outside the Chinese mainland, including Apple Daily and Initium Media from Hong Kong, of “instigation, planning and direction” in Wukan.

   2016 June 21, Austin Ramzy, “Chinese Official Whose Arrest Stirred Protests Confesses to Taking Bribes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2016, Asia Pacific

   Synonyms: Swabue