Citations:Kuang-chou

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English citations of Kuang-chou

Map including KUANG-CHOU (CANTON) (DMA, 1975)
  • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143:
    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.
  • 1955, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, “The Zen Sect of Buddhism”, in Studies in Zen[2], Dell Publishing, page 13:
    In the year 520 he at last landed at Kuang-chou in Southern China.
  • 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century[3], University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 388:
    In 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.
  • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China[4], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
    The main rice-producing areas were Kuang-chou, Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou, Ying-te, Hsun-chou and Hsiang-chou.