Liangkwang
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 兩廣／两广 (Liǎngguǎng, “the Two Expanses”).
Proper noun edit
Liangkwang
- (obsolete or historical) Alternative form of Liangguang
- [2009 May 31, “In Our Pages 100, 75, 50 Years Ago”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 27, 2018, Opinion[2]:
- Hong-Kong The gage has been thrown down to Portugal by the Chinese of the Heungshan district, and unless the Lisbon Government is cautious in the handling of its affairs at Macao it will lose the colony. Two days ago (May 29) the Viceroy of the Liang-Kwang provinces journeyed from Canton and opened the port of Heungchow to trade. This is the first overt step taken in the agitation among the Chinese to demonstrate to Portugal that any effort to retain land and waterways, alleged by the Chinese to have been wrongly occupied, will be strongly resented. Heungchow is about ten miles to the north-east of Macao and there is nothing as yet to suggest that in time it will become a thriving port.]