See also: Dōngguǎn

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東莞东莞 (Dōngguǎn).

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IPA(key): /ˈdʊŋˈɡwɑn/

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Dongguan

  1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
    • [1970, Union Research Service[1], volume 59, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
      In Tungkuan County, the Houchieh Brigade under Houchieh Commune, with the assistance of the Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team, made []]
    • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China[2], New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
      Dongguan was different. It rose by no one’s decree; it simply grew. While Shenzhen aspired to advanced technology and innovation, Dongguan took what it could get, which meant low-tech factories from Hong Kong and Taiwan that made clothing, toys, and shoes.
    • 2014 March 6, Edward Wong, “Red Lights Dim in China’s Sin City”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 March 2014, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      China is undergoing the harshest anti-vice campaign the government has mounted in years, and the crackdown is taking a toll on the economy of Dongguan, a southern city of more than eight million people. It is a manufacturing center for the export business and a Mecca for migrant workers, but it is also the nation’s sin city. Now, the red-light industry here is blushing a deep pink.
    • 2015 April 24, Euan McKirdy, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN[5], archived from the original on 24 April 2015:
      In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for its huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dongguan.

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