"Kwangchow" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 廣州/广州 (Guǎngzhōu). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|廣州}} 廣州/广州 (Guǎngzhōu) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Kwangchow
  1. Obsolete spelling of Guangzhou Wikipedia link: Encyclopædia Britannica Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: Guangzhou
    Sense id: en-Kwangchow-en-name-EolK-hcr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1968, Robert Trumbull, editor, This is Communist China, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 97",
          "text": "Red Guards whom he met in Peking, Shanghai, and Kwangchow were bright and cheerful and full of self-confidence, and he could explain this by the fact that they are children of peasant soldiers who have become a sort of privileged class since the establishment of the Communist regime.",
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          "text": "Although foreign companies are beginning to have an opportunity to show their products in China through national industrial fairs in Peking, negotiation for as much as one-half of all China's foreign trade is done at Kwangchow. Business firms interested or engaged in trade with China should make a point of attending these fairs regularly.",
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          "text": "Faced with the evolving situation, in September 1962 the Soviet government decided to close the consulates general of the USSR in Harbin and Shanghai, and then the offices of the trade representatives of the USSR in Dal’nyy, Shanghai, and Kwangchow (Canton), and the “Sovfrakht” agencies in Chinese railroad stations in Manchouli (Lupin) and Tsinan.",
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          "ref": "1978, Henry S. Kaplan, Patricia Jones Tsuchitani, editors, Cancer in China, Alan R. Liss, Inc., →OCLC, page 7",
          "text": "During our five days in Kwangtung Province in southern China, we visited Chung Shan County, an area of high incidence of nasopharyngeal cancer, and the city of Kwangchow, where a tumor institute and tumor hospital are affiliated with the Chung Shan Medical College. […] The Chung Shan County Hospital is located in the county seat of Shih-ch’i, which is about 70 km south of Kwangchow on the Pearl River delta.",
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          "ref": "1982 April 4, “Scandal triggers friction”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, page 3",
          "text": "Quoting intelligence reports, the source said Wang Wei-ching was chief of Kwangchow City’s \"telecommunications bureau\" when he was arrested last February for smuggling electronic appliances and watches....The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.",
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