Tantung

See also: Tan-tung

English

Etymology

1965, from Mandarin 丹東／丹东 (Dāndōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-tung¹.

Proper noun

Tantung

1. Alternative form of Dandong
   • 1965 May 10 [1965 April 18], “Administrative Division Changes Announced”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[1], number 89, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, pages CCC 6-CCC 7:

     The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced the changes of administrative divisions in China between 1 January and 31 March 1965: […]
     Liaoning Province:
     Antung city renamed Tantung city; Antung county renamed Tungkou county; Kaiping county renamed Kai county.

   • 1978 May 29, Walter Sullivan, “Foul Gas Preceding China Quake Called Sign of Methane Reserves”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 January 2019, Section A, page 7‎^[3]:

     In the month before the quake, “a gas with an extraordinary smell” was reported in the area, including the nearby city of Liaoyang and near Tantung at the mouth of the Yalu River on the Korean border.

   • 1996, Yasuo Miyakawa, “Mutation of International Politico-Economic Structure and the Development of the Pacific Maritime Corridor in the East Asia Orbit”, in Global Geopolitical Change and the Asia-Pacific: A Regional Perspective‎^[4], Avebury Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     During this war economy, Nissan Motors promoted the establishment of automobile factories, first at Mukden (now Shenyang) and then Antung (now Tantung) near Korea.

   • 2010, Seymour Topping, “Battle for Manchuria”, in On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam‎^[5], Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:

     The previous October he had mounted an offensive with seven divisions down the peninsula to Tantung, on the Yalu River bordering North Korea, routing the Communists and inflicting heavy casualties on them.

   • 2022, Jim Mangi, “Korea 1945 to the Present”, in Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito and Hitler: What Might Have Happened If the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early‎^[6], Pen and Sword Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [7]:

     The previous year the GMD had defeated the PLA in much of south-eastern Manchuria, capturing Tantung and Tunghua along the border with Korea (Hooten).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tantung.