Tengchong
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 騰衝／腾冲 (Téngchōng).
Proper noun
[edit]Tengchong
- A county-level city in Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
- [2003, Donovan Webster, chapter 14, in The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II[1], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 222–223:
- The Chinese didn’t relent, however, and despite huge losses to both forces, the Y Force eventually took the city on June 10. Now they had to turn their attention to the Japanese garrison city of Tengchung, forty miles to Lungling’s north, and to the long, impregnable, and still-Japanese-controlled ridge of Sungshan, which still imperiled the Burma Road and its Salween River crossing.]
- 2011 October 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “China Honors Its War Dead, but Quietly”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-28, ASIA PACIFIC[3]:
- Yet something is happening: On Sept. 14, in a ceremony at a war memorial in Tengchong, Yunnan, the remains of 19 soldiers of the Nationalist Chinese Expeditionary Force who died in Burma during World War II were reburied in China, a first since the Communists seized power in 1949.
- 2020 October 11, “China backs Iran nuclear deal, calls for new MidEast forum”, in France 24[4], archived from the original on 10/11/2020, Live news[5]:
- Wang and Javid Zarif also reaffirmed their commitment to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, according to the Chinese foreign ministry, an implicit rebuke of the United States for abandoning the accord during their Saturday meeting in China's southwestern Tengchong city.