Changzhou Island

	Changzhou Island
	"Part of the Canton River" in 1841, a map showing Guangzhou and its surrounding islands during the First Opium War. Changzhou ("Dane Is.") lies in the east, Xiaoguwei ("French Is.") to its south, and Pazhou ("Whampoa Is.") to its northwest.
Traditional Chinese	長洲島
Simplified Chinese	长洲岛
Postal	Dane's Island
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chángzhōudǎo

Last updated March 19, 2019

Changzhou Island, formerly known in English as Dane or Dane's Island, is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Guangzhou's Huangpu District, although the historic Huangpu Island was nearby Pazhou, which forms part of Haizhu District.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent by Latin and French.

The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. It is one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered an emerging megacity. The region's economy is referred to as Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, while the Chinese government's development plans consider it part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.

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Geography

Changzhou is about 11.5 km² (4.4 sq mi), of which 8.5 km² (3.3 sq mi) is dry land.^[1]

History

During the Canton trade, Changzhou was used by Danish crews for repairs and burials. It lay on the eastern side of the Huangpu or "Whampoa" anchorage.

The Canton System (1757–1842) served as a means for China to control trade with the West within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton. Known in Chinese as the Yīkǒu tōngshāng the policy arose in 1757 as a response to a perceived political and commercial threat from abroad on the part of successive Chinese emperors.

The island was the site of Sun Yat-sen's Whampoa Military Academy ^[2] (est. 1924) and the 1926 Zhongshan Incident that propelled the academy's commandant Chiang Kai-shek to leadership over the Chinese Nationalists and then all of Warlord China.

Sun Yat-sen Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary

Sun Yat-sen was the founding father of the Republic of China. The provisional first president of the Republic of China, Sun was a Chinese medical doctor, writer, philosopher, Georgist, calligrapher, and revolutionary. As the foremost pioneer and first leader of a Republican China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC) and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Kuomintang, serving as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and he remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Generalissimo Chiang or Chiang Chungcheng and romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese politician and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in Taiwan until his death. He was recognized by much of the world as the head of the legitimate government of China until 1971, during which the United Nations passed Resolution 2758.

The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions, which were spread across the mainland regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan, and Xinjiang.

Transportation

Changzhou is now linked to Guangzhou's road network by a bridge to neighboring Xiaoguwei.

Xiaoguwei, formerly known in English as French Island, is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Xinzao (新造镇), a town in Guangzhou's Panyu District. The Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center now occupies the entire island.

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References

↑ "Changzhou Island Cultural and Tourist Resort", Official site, Guangzhou: Huangpu District Government .
↑ "Cycling on Changzhou Island", Life of Guangzhou .

Coordinates: 23°04′52″N113°24′48″E / 23.08111°N 113.41333°E / 23.08111; 113.41333

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[1] "Changzhou Island Cultural and Tourist Resort", Official site, Guangzhou: Huangpu District Government .

[2] "Cycling on Changzhou Island", Life of Guangzhou .