Sentence examples for kwangtung from inspiring English sources

Nam Viet, (Vietnamese), Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) Nan Yüeh or (Pinyin) Nan Yue, ancient kingdom occupying much of what is now northern Vietnam and the southern Chinese provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi.

The kingdom was formed in 207 bce, during the breakup of the Ch'in dynasty (221 206 bce), when the Ch'in governor of Yüeh (now Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces) declared his territory independent.

The most important mines are in the Nan Mountains in the Kiangsi, Hunan, and Kwangtung provinces of China, which possesses about 50 percent of the world's reserves.

In Tokyo neither the high command of the Japanese army nor Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijirō proved able to restrain the Kwangtung Army in the field, and within three months Japanese troops had spread throughout Manchuria.

Guangdong, Wade-Giles romanization Kuang-tung, conventional Kwangtung, sheng (province) of South China.

Following the conquest, the area became a region for Chinese settlement, a policy that eventually resulted in the sinicization of Kwangtung and Kwangsi and introduced Chinese culture to northern Vietnam.

March 14, 1837 China April 15 , 1885Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Yap Ah Loy, (born March 14 , 1837 Kwangtung Province, China died April 15 , 1885 Kuala Lumpur, Malay Peninsula) leader of the Chinese community of Kuala Lumpur, who was largely responsible for the development of that city as a commercial and mining centre.

(Canton was the capital city of Kwangtung Province, now known as now Guangdong).

16] recommended the Throne to recall Yuan Shih-Kai and to appoint him as Viceroy of the Kwangtung Province.

Patsuo Kawai, Japanese Consul General in Canton, today lodged a second protest with South China authorities against the anti-Japanese movement in Kwangtung Province.

The border between South China and Hong Kong is becoming indistinguishable, with Hong Kong entrepreneurs creating more than three million jobs in Kwangtung Province.