Tungkuan
See also: Tung-kuan
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 東莞 (Dōngguǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-kuan³.
Proper noun
editTungkuan
- Alternative form of Dongguan
- 1972 April, “Science in the Countryside”, in China Reconstructs[2], volume XXI, number 4, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
- FIFTY-THREE year-old Chou Chuang-nu, leader of the Chouwu brigade in the Fucheng commune in Kwangtung province’s Tungkuan county, put down his sickle and led me to a small granary.
- 1978, Benedict Stavis, “The Cultural Revolution: Decade of Mechanization”, in The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China[3], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210:
- In 1963 a commune in Tungkuan County, Kwangtung, about 40 km. east of Canton, got electric machinery for irrigation.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tungkuan.