T'ien-chin

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English

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Map including T'IEN-CHIN (TIENTSIN) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 天津 (Tiānjīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-chin¹.[1]

Proper noun

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T'ien-chin

  1. Alternative form of Tianjin
    • Nov. 1, 1878, Rev. Miles Greenwood, “North China”, in The Mission Field[2], number 275, page 544:
      On Wednesday, the 27th, we arrived at a place called Tʻien-chin. Here we were not on the high road to Pekin, hence the excitement created by our arrival was greater than I had ever before witnessed.
    • 1985, Jürgen Domes, The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition[3], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
      In addition, areas of foreign settlement with extraterritorial administration were established in Shanghai, T'ien-chin, Hank'ou, Chiuchiang, Amoy, and the island of Shamien (opposite Canton).
    • 1990, “Earth Sciences”, in Richard Golob, Eric Brus, editors, The Almanac of Science and Technology[4], Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 271:
      During 1983, in a joint research project with the USGS, Chinese seismologists finished installing an array of about 40 instruments to monitor ground motions associated with strong events in the Beijing/Tʻien-chin region of northeastern China.
    • 1996, S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier[5], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:
      He informed the Chinese that they must do his bidding lest the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force take Tientsin (T'ien-chin) and Peking, putting the West Europeans in a position to topple the dynasty.

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 485:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] T'ien-chin (Tianjin) 天津

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