The Qianlong Emperor decreed in 1757 that all Western maritime trade with China would be conducted through a single port, Canton, now Guangzhou; for the next 85 years, one city was, by imperial law, the entirety of China's legal...
Zhaoqing's new viceroy seized Matteo Ricci's mission house in 1589 and expelled him from the city; Ricci relocated to Shaoguan, further up the North River, initially lodging at the Buddhist Guangxiao Temple before establishing a mission beside it.
一五八九年，肇庆新任总督没收了利玛窦的传教驻地，并将他逐出该城；利玛窦随即迁往北江上游的韶州，起初暂住于佛教光孝寺，随后在寺旁建立传教驻地。
The early...
Shenzhen takes its name from the water channels that once crossed the area's farmland; in the local Hakka and Cantonese dialects, the character zhen refers to a ditch or drain cut through the fields. Today, "ditch" as a descriptor...
Writing in 1602, a Chinese chronicler recorded Portuguese traders arriving at Haojing in 1553 claiming a storm had soaked their cargo. Asking to dry it ashore; the maritime official Wang Bo accepted a bribe and let them stay. It...
A typhoon made landfall near Shantou at nine o'clock at night on 2 August 1922, with its lowest recorded pressure at 932 hectopascals and winds reaching around 100 miles an hour; the storm surge that followed breached the region's...
Mid 19th century, British accounts were calling Foshan the Birmingham of China, after its iron foundries consumed most of Guangdong province's pig iron output; by then, casting furnaces had crowded the streets around the city's Ancestral Temple for centuries.
十九世纪，英文史料已将佛山称为"中国的伯明翰"，因为佛山的铸铁作坊消耗了广东省大部分的生铁产量；彼时，围绕祖庙一带的铸炉作坊，已经拥挤了数百年。
Guangdong's...
Jiangmen's government banned pet dogs from public places across its three urban districts in August 2011, after rabies had killed 42 people in the preceding three years; officials set aside a 13 acre site where rural residents could adopt...
French troops sailed into a fishing bay on the Leizhou Peninsula in the warship Bayard in April 1898, found a deep natural harbour and by November of the following year had forced China into a 99 year lease. The...
