Shuntak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃʌntɑk/
Forms: form: Shun Tak
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 順德／顺德 (seon6 dak1).
Senses: examples: text: In 1854 a Triad army, commanded by Tai Chün-kat, attacked Taileung, the chief city of the Shuntak district and captured it after half an hour's fighting. Tai Chün-kat, who appears to have been of a merciful disposition, successfully exerted himself in preventing the gentry and wealthy inhabitants from being plundered by his soldiers.
ref: 1894-1895, William Stanton, “The Triad Society, Or Heaven and Earth Association”, in The China Review: Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East, volume 21, Hong Kong: 'China Mail' Office, page 179:
text: The principal lichee-producing districts in Kwangtung Province are Namhoi, Pun Yu, Tsang Shing, and Tung Kun. Some lichees are grown in the Heungshan, Shuntak, and Samshui districts, and while they are produced in abundance in the Yeung Kong and Shui Tung districts they are of inferior quality.
ref: 1915 September 24, F. D. Cheshire, “The Famous Lichee of China”, in Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports, volume 3, number 224, page 1434:
text: About one-seventh of the world’s output of raw silk is produced in the Province of Kwangtung, where the principal districts from the standpoint of value of raw-silk production are Shuntak, Chungshan, Namhoi, Sunwui and Samshui. All the silk business of Kwangtung Province centers in Shuntak (south of Canton, in the Canton delta area).
ref: 1931 March 30, “Extent of Kwangtung's Silk Industry”, in Commercial Reports: A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade, number 13, page 813:
text: Heart of the specialized silk area is the Shuntak District south and west of Canton where 70 per cent of the total land area is devoted to mulberry growing and over 90 per cent of the rural population is engaged in some phase of sericulture. […] To such a degree does this district represent the focus of sericulture within Kwangtung Province that 80 per cent of Canton’s banks are estimated to be financed with Shuntak capital. Heungshaan and Naamhoi Districts lying to the south and north of Shuntak respectively each have close to one-half the mulberry acreage of the last name district.
ref: 1939, Glenn T. Trewartha, “Field Observations on the Canton Delta of South China”, in Economic Geography, volume 15, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 8:
text: So we are all meeting together at the ferry pier, since we are going to Shuntak County, to a commune production brigade lying somewhere among all the waterways of the Pearl River Delta.
ref: 1970, Lei De Wei, “Five Days Are Not Enough”, in Eastern Horizon, volume IX, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: The most intensive breeding of silkworms in found in the areas of Fatshan and Shuntak, where cocoon crops are gathered six or seven times during the year.
ref: 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: National and Regional Development, 1949-71, completely revised edition, Praeger Publishers, page 185:
text: But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.
ref: 2007, Joe Studwell, “How to be a post-war godfather”, in Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1st American edition, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:
text: The town of Hanford was formed in 1877 when the Southern Pacific Railroad extended into California’s San Joaquin Valley. Many Chinese laborers came to work on the tracks, and later stayed for farming. They were mostly from Sam Yup (三邑 sānyì), the three former counties of Namhoi (南海 nánhǎi), Poonyu (番禺 pānyú) and Shuntak (顺德 shùndé) in Canton — now known as Guǎngdōng 广东 — province.
ref: 2021 April 6, Evelyn Hang Yin, “Hanford’s China Alley: A historic Chinatown in rural America”, in SupChina, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2021:
glosses: Synonym of Shunde (Foshan, Guangdong, China): the Cantonese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Shunde
extra: (Foshan, Guangdong, China): the Cantonese-derived name
wikipedia: Army Map Service