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	Canton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		canton (subnational entity), a territorial subdivision of a country
		canton (heraldry), a subordinary occupying the (shield holder's) upper right-hand ninth of the field
		Canton, Cardiff, a district of the Welsh capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canton (170 words)

	Guangzhou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese.
		It is a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea.
		"Canton" was the convenient French romanisation for Europeans who during the colonial period generally did not understand ideographic characters (see exonym and endonym).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guangzhou (1100 words)

	Canton Professional Fire Fighters, Local 2289 Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This is approximately a 22.6% increase from the June 1997 mid-decade census and approximately a 45.9% increase from the April 1990 census.
		Canton is 36 square mile in size, and located in the great State of Michigan, on the far western edge of Wayne County.
		Canton is approximately 20 miles east of Ann Arbor, 35 miles west of Detroit and 50 miles north of Toledo, Ohio.
	www.cantonfirefighters.org (866 words)

	Antique china information and tips
		Canton, the name is derived from the Chinese port where it was exported, became America's favorite china.
		In addition to elements already mentioned, Canton china can be identified by its three ring border; a narrow white rim at the extreme outer edge, surrounding a wider blue band decorated with diamond and asterisk looking designs, encompassing a continuous scalloped interior line filled with diagonal dashes referred to as the rain and cloud pattern.
		Canton was often molded out of unrefined clay, painted in haste, and baked in the bottom of the kiln where is was subject to damage by ash, and uncontrolled temperatures.
	www.collectingnetwork.com /guide/antiquechina.html (602 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In Canton, one of the five ports in which Westerners were allowed to trade, antiforeign feeling was running high.
		From the diplomatic point of view, the presence of an American force in the midst of a fast-developing war could be taken as an insult by the sensitive Chinese.
		Canton was located at the apex of a sprawling delta.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usmchist/barrier.txt (3008 words)

	China
		The Canton Connection: Art and Commerce of the China Trade, 1784-1860, featuring over 120 objects from Historic Deerfield’s Asian art collection, focuses on trade activity and relationships between American and Chinese merchants in the 18th and 19th centuries.
		China characterized itself as the “Middle Kingdom” or center of the world and regarded all other countries as subservient vassals.
		This exhibition also explores the role of trade between China and rural New England communities, dispelling the myth that the China trade was exclusively a coastal phenomenon.
	www.historic-deerfield.org /China.shtml (696 words)

	Lucerne Canton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lucerne Canton, canton in central Switzerland, bounded on the north by the canton of Aargau; on the west by the canton of Bern; on the south by the...
		Lucerne (town) (also Luzern), town in central Switzerland, capital of Lucerne Canton, at the point where the Reuss River issues from the north-west...
		Guangzhou (also Canton, Kuang-chou, or Kwangchow), city in southern China, capital of Guangdong Province.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Lucerne_Canton.html (115 words)

	Battuta's Trip Nine
		The rulers of all China were the powerful descendants of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Dynasty (Yuan Dynasty 1260 - 1368).
		Muslims had been welcomed into China at that time and foreigners were recruited by the emperor.
		China was not a Muslim country and that offended him.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Nine.html (1677 words)

	George Washington's Mount Vernon - Online Store
		Throughout the 18th century, huge quantities of blue and white tableware were shipped to America from the ports of Canton and Nanking.
		Canton china is known for its traditional hand-painted river scenes and other views of domestic life in China.
		The design on this Mount Vernon Canton plate is derived from a fine blue and white tray featuring the customary Chinese River scene.
	www.mountvernon.org /store/shopping/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewitem/pid/629 (170 words)

	Wuxho and night boat to Canton - China
		The ticket that I had purchased was a through ticket from Yángshuò to Canton which is a coastal port right on the the southern tip of the country.
		In China the children do not wear nappies of any description, instead they have the crutch of their trousers un-sewn so that they can go to the toilet without messing their clothes.
		In China the average person’s view of a floor is that it is there to put the dirt on, and that goes for the floor of a bus as well!
	www.aboutmytravel.com /main.php3?action=displayarticle&artid=170 (1368 words)

	Zhuang - Chinese ethnics - China
		The Zhuang are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
		The Zhuang are of Tai origin, a people who migrated south from central China roughly 5000 years ago.
		The Nan Han rule of the Zhuang was marked by minimal interference in Zhuang affairs by the Chinese rulers.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Zhuang (1454 words)

	Canton Historical Society
		The History of Canton, Massachusetts begins in 1630 with the Incorporation of the Town of Dorchester.
		In 1726, the portion of Dorchester which comprised Stoughton, Canton and Sharon wanted to be annexed from their mother town.
		In 1796, the First Parish decided they wanted their freedom, a man named Elijah Dunbar thought the new town was antipodal to Canton, China, he was wrong of course.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/1496/canton.html (510 words)

	Guangzhou Travel Guide: Guangzhou Hotel, Map, Climate, Bus, Pictures, Tour, Bus...
		Guangzhou, the South Gate of China, is a prosperous metropolis full of vigor.
		Guangzhou is the capital city of Guangdong, and the center of its political, economic, scientific, educational and cultural life.
		With the opening of China to the outside world, a large number of people from other regions of China swarmed into Guangzhou, one of the first “open” cities in China.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/guangzhou.htm (572 words)

	The accommodation of insanity in Canton, China: 1857--1935
		The development and dissemination of such knowledge is important because of its relevance to social work practice and the field of social welfare.
		In the late nineteenth century, American medical missionaries established China's first insane asylum in the southern port city of Canton- the John G. Kerr Refuge for the Insane.
		The research concludes that urbanization, population density, housing conditions, the rise of a municipal elite interested in philanthropy and social actors, sufficiently explains the accommodation of the Kerr Refuge at Canton.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI3043963 (371 words)

	Canton on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Columbia-CSA HS Canton Partnership Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Programs of Visiting Nurse...
		Workers Wait for Fate of Canton, N.C., Champion International Paper Mill.
		Canton City School District Thwarts State Attempt to Halt School Construction; State Agency Attempted to Use CCS District as a Budget Scapegoat.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-CantonRiv.asp (228 words)

	China Canton Fair: 2006 Canton Trade Fair Information
		Chinese Export Commodities Fair (CECF), also known as the Canton Fair, was originated in the spring of 1957 and held in Guangzhou every spring and autumn of a year.
		During the history of 48 years, it has borne the record among the international comprehensive trade fairs, with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most attendances, the most complete varieties of goods and the highest business turnover.
		The Canton Fair is composed of 48 trading delegations, including thousands of foreign trade companies, factories, scientific research institutions, foreign invested enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, private enterprises, etc, all of which are of good credibility and of strong financial capability.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /hotel/canton-fair (399 words)

	Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
		India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia.
		The only comparable development in China was the application of Marxism by the Communist government that came to power in 1949.
		While Wang Chêng was the son of the wife of Chuang-Hsiang, she may have already been pregnant, previously having been the concubine of another man, like the Empress Eudocia Ingerina at the beginning of the Macedonian Dynasty of Romania.
	www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm (12407 words)

	CNN.com - arts & style - Designer Tam goes home for 'China Chic' - November 20, 2000
		Vivienne Tam's new book, "China Chic," takes a look at her homeland's influence on world style.
		She also traveled back to China to find out what qualifies as chic in China.
		Tam, who was born in Canton, China, and came to the United States from Hong Kong in 1982, hopes the book will help expand her business to all kinds of Chinese-themed items.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/fashion/11/20/china.chic.tam.book (433 words)

	07 Hess - Reflections On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		She was privately tutored by a group of the College’s honor students, the first of whom were “Miss Margie” Burks, daughter of the school’s professor of English and born in China, and “Miss Lucy” Lester.
		She felt Chiang and the whole Soong family and their in-laws had betrayed her late husband’s political legacy by making their government one for China’s small middle-class and not one that would be more egalitarian by broadening the rights of China’s large peasant majority politically, socially, economically, and educationally.
		But it was in her very personal and effective World War II lobbying for China in the United States that Madame Chiang became a familiar image of the fight against Japan for many Americans between 1942 and 1945.
	www.nssa.us /nssajrnl/23_1/htm/07.htm (5127 words)

	Canton fair China 2005 Guangzhou, guangzhou canton fair
		Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also called Canton Fair, is held twice a year in Spring and Autumn since it was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957.
		It is China's largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business turnover.
		Forty-eight Trading Delegations, being composed of thousands of China's best foreign trade corporations (enterprises) with good credibility and sound financial capabilities, take part in the Fair, including foreign trade companies, factories, scientific research institutions, foreign invested enterprises, wholly foreign-owned enterprises, private enterprises, etc.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/canton_fair/canton_fair.htm (204 words)

	Asia with PRIDE - Lesson #2 - Explorers! - page 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		As you can tell from the location of these last entries, Chasseur is very near her destination of Canton, China.
		Macao is an island near the mouth of the Pearl River and guards the city of Canton.
		Because the river is narrow and navigation without an engine was dangerous, it was necessary to take aboard a local pilot who knew all the twists and turns of the river to guide the ship up the river.
	www.intandem.com /NewPrideSite/Asia/Lesson2/Lesson2_10.html (273 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:yue
		Spoken in Guangdong (except for the Hakka speaking areas especially in the northeast, the Min Nan speaking areas of the east, at points along the coast as well as Hainan Island), Macau, and in the southern part of Guangxi.
		Came from Canton, China as railroad workers and soldiers several decades ago.
		They are not the same as the Nung in the Tai family or the Tibeto-Burman Nung (Nu) of China and Myanmar.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=yue (320 words)

	Canton, China Cruise Port Information
		Canton is a city whose history reflects that of all of China.
		It has been a foreign trading port for over 2,000 years, a pivotal flash point during the Opium Wars, and a center for revolutionary activities — for which it gained its recognition as the “Birthplace of Modern China.” It was here that Sun Yatsen and Mao Zedong began reshaping their nation over 60 years ago.
		Or, visit the Canton Zoo, home of Canton’s most famous residents, the giant pandas.
	www.destinationoceans.com /cruise_ports_of_call_by_country.asp?port=CAN (190 words)

	Auch2000 - Shanghai, China
		Charlie Jones Soong/Soong Yau Ju was born, in 1875, to impoverished parents on South China's Haninan Island.
		Eventually Mei-Ling would be "first Lady" of China, when she married Chaing Kai-shek 1927.
		T.V. Soong, was not only prime minister of nationalist China, but later became a millionaire by taking advantage of an artificially controlled government currency exchange rate.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Shanghai.html (1663 words)

	Thurgau Canton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Thurgau Canton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Thurgau Canton, canton in north-eastern Switzerland, bordered on the north by Germany, on the south by St Gallen Canton, and on the west by Zurich...
		Neuchâtel Canton, canton in western Switzerland, bordered on the north-east by Jura and Bern cantons, on the east by Fribourg Canton, on the south by...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Thurgau_Canton.html (114 words)

	Chasseur Log - Homebound, Canton to Baltimore After (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		After acquiring 2,225 chests of tea, 301 bolts of silk, 405 boxes of china and other exotic items that could be sold for high prices back home, Chasseur left the port of Canton, China, on January 1, 1816.
		She returned to Maryland along nearly the same route as her outbound voyage to China.
		Despite the fact that the copper sheeting on her hull was coming loose and slowing her down, she made the passage from Canton, China, to Chesapeake Bay in 95 days.
	www.intandem.com /NewPrideSite/asia/Clog/Clog_home.html (248 words)

	Uri Canton - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Uri borders the cantons of Schwyz on the north, Glarus and Graubünden on the east, Ticino and Valais on...
		Tell, William, legendary Swiss patriot of the 14th century, who is said to have liberated Switzerland from Austrian despotism.
		It is a busy port and a commercial and...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Uri_Canton.html (94 words)

	China Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		China - Ethnolinguistic Groups from Communist China Map Folio.
		China - Special Economic Zones 1997 (272K) from the Handbook of International Economic Statistics
		China - Special Economic Zones 1996 (254K) from the Handbook of International Economic Statistics
	www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/china.html (420 words)

	HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - 7210 price in china.
		I had my friend who was in Shangai a few weeks ago look around for some phones.
		China mainland..7210 costs about 380 us dollars here.
		Mainland China, or some other parts definately aren't the places u should look for new and unlocked phones..
	www.howardforums.com /printthread.php?t=86218 (165 words)

	Canton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		We went to Della's since no one felt like dealing with Canton in that weather. I realised that instead of wearing jeans and straightening my hair, I should have...
		The results that came were haphazard, and way out of focus from what I needed or even related to the subject.
		Having said that, it would still have been nice to follow along on their deliberations and be able to comment, but I suspect/hope that after parliament there will be some sort of feed back mechanism established for Baronial/ canton representatives in Ruantallan which will at least keep us in the loop for the next year.
	www.ljseek.com /Canton_s4.html (812 words)

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