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A prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China. quotations examples
Whenever Ch'en Chiung-ming, still at large in the East River uplands, would move on Canton, Liu and Yang would requisition from Sun a sum of 10,000 silver yuan* for the defense of Canton, or C$100,000 to force Ch'en back up the East River to Huichou.]
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(historical) A region in modern-day Anhui, in southeastern China. quotations
Xidi, a village in China’s Huizhou region of Anhui Province, dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
2012 March 29, Gilles Sabrie, “In Rural China, a Preserved Dynastic Village”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 March 2012
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A group of varieties of Chinese spoken in and around the region of Huizhou. examples