Kwangchow

Proper noun

Kwangchow

1. Dated spelling of Guangzhou.
   • 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.1968, Robert Trumbull, editor, This is Communist China, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 97
   • 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...1973, J. Mark Mobius, Gerhard F. Simmel, Trading with China, Arco Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 45