Liangkwang

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 兩廣 / 两广 (Liǎngguǎng, “the Two Expanses”).

Proper noun

Liangkwang

  1. (obsolete or historical) Alternative form of Liangguang.
    • 1983, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, “The Chinese Boycott of 1905: People's Reaction to Exclusion”, in China and the Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868-1911‎[1], Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
      The most controversial Ch’ing figure during the boycott movement was probably Ts’en Ch’un-hsuan, the governor-general of Liangkwang. He was called the “suppressor” by certain boycotters, while American officials labeled him the “chief agitator.”
    • [2009 May 31, “In Our Pages 100, 75, 50 Years Ago”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 January 2018, Opinion‎[3]:
      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.]
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