Quang-si

See also: Quangsi

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Quang-si

(obsolete) Alternative form of Guangxi
- 1738, “PROVINCE XII. QUANG-TONG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. du Halde, page 109:
  THIS is the moſt conſiderable of all the Southern Provinces. It is bounded on the North-Eaſt by that of Fo-kyen ; on the North by Kyang-ſi, on the Weſt by Quang-ſi and the Kingdom of Tong-king ; the reſt is waſh'd by the Sea, where are a good Number of commodious Ports.
- 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time‎^[2], volume IV, page 297:
  After the death of the empreſs Papûſha he had been baniſhed into Korea, from whence he was removed to Quey-lin Fû, the capital of Quang-ſi.
- 1798, An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795‎^[3], pages 12–13:
  It was on the 24th that the Tſong-tou returned from a journey which he had made to the province of Quang-ſi, which, like that of Quang-tong, was ſubject to his adminiſtration; but the Fou-yuen being obliged to ſet off the ſame day, and to go and examine the damages occaſioned by an inundation, at the diſtance of two or three days journey, his unforeſeen abſence determined the Tſong-tou to ſend, on the following day, two principal Mandarins to wait upon the Ambaſſador, and to tell him, that the was prevented by that circumſtance from giving him an audience.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Quang-si.