T'ai-erh-chuang
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Etymology
[edit]From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 臺兒莊/台兒莊/台儿庄 (Tʻai²-êrh²-chuang¹).
Proper noun
[edit]T'ai-erh-chuang
- 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.
Translations
[edit]Tai'erzhuang — see Tai'erzhuang