T'ai-erh-chuang

English

Map including 臺兒莊 T’ai-erh-chuang (Taierhchwang) (walled) (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 臺兒莊／台兒莊／台儿庄 (Tʻai²-êrh²-chuang¹).

Proper noun

T'ai-erh-chuang

1. Alternative form of Tai'erzhuang
   • 1979, Guy S. Alitto, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity‎^[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 293:

     In the meantime, the long-awaited battle of Hsuchow had started (inauspiciously with the Japanese taking the small walled town to the northeast, T'ai-erh-chuang).

   • 1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, editors, The Cambridge History of China‎^[2], volume 13, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 555:

     In early April 1938, for example, as the Japanese converged on the key transportation centre of Hsu-chou in northern Kiangsu, General Li Tsung-jen’s forces enticed the attackers into a trap in the walled town of T'ai-erh-chuang.

   • 1997, Dorothy Perkins, Japan Goes to War: a Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion from the Meiji era to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1868-1941)‎^[3], →OCLC, page 133:

     APR. 7. After a 17-day battle, the Chinese won their first victory against the Japanese at T'ai-erh-chuang in Shantung Province.

Translations

Tai'erzhuang — see Tai'erzhuang