Nantung

See also: Nan-t'ung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng).

Proper noun

Nantung

1. Dated form of Nantong.
   • 1949 February 16, “Govt. Forces Evacuate 3 Districts”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[1], page 7:

     NANKING, Feb. 15 (PTI-Reuter): Chinese Government forces have evacuated the Nantung, Haimen and Chitung districts, north of the Yangtse River, stretching from 60 miles northwest to within 40 miles north of Shanghai, according to reports reaching here from Chinkiang.
     Communists forces now control the north bank of the Yangtse at the river mouth and the northern part of two channels leading to the sea.

   • 1968, Jean Chesneaux, translated by H. M. Wright, The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927‎^[2], Stanford University Press, page 9:

     Between 1914 and 1918 the number of spindles in Chinese-owned cotton mills increased from 160,000 to 216,000 in Shanghai, from 45,000 to 59,000 in Wusih, and from 40,000 to 61,000 in Nantung; the number of Chinese-owned tobacco factories in Shanghai rose from two to nine, and of reeling machines in the Shanghai silk factories from 14,000 to 18,000.

   • 1972, Holmes Welch, Buddhism under Mao‎^[3], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 315:

     After liberation the informal groups survived especially in Kiangsu, Chekiang, and Fukien, where the number of lay devotees had been largest. About most of them we know only their names, which indicate that their purpose was usually Pure Land practice. About one we know somewhat more. This was the Mu-kuang Lotus Society in Nantung, Kiangsu. Its seventy-six members got together to recite buddha's name once a month; and on other occasions to celebrate Pure Land festivals.

References

• “Nantung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.