Tunghwa
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Tunghwa
- Alternative form of Tonghua
- 1959, Richard Condon, chapter 2, in The Manchurian Candidate[1], Signet Books, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:
- A CHINESE ARMY construction battalion arrived at Tunghwa, forty-three miles inside the Korean frontier, on July 4, 1951, to set underway the housing for events, planned in 1936, that were to reach their conclusion in the United States of America in 1960.
- 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955[2], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 352:
- As the Japanese closed in on Tunghwa, Gilbert gave asylum to important figures of the resistance and the former government and stored trunks containing their personal belongings. He also took care of wounded soldiers from the defeated Chinese army. Not surprisingly, the Japanese put him on their blacklist and, after the fall of Tunghwa, prepared to raid his place for evidence.
Translations[edit]
Tonghua — see Tonghua
Further reading[edit]
- “Tunghwa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.