Tsingtao

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English

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Map of CH'ING-TAO (TSINGTAO)

Etymology

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From the Postal Romanization[1] of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 青島青岛 (Qīngdǎo).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: tsǐngʹtouʹ, chǐngʹdouʹ[2]

Proper noun

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Tsingtao

  1. Alternative form of Qingdao
    • 1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times[3], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 224:
      But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.
    • 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949[4], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22:
      Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.
    • 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China[5], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
      Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.
    • 1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea[6], Facts On File, →ISBN, page 269:
      1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsingtao.

References

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  1. ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese).[1], Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 31:The romanisation adopted is [] that used by the Chinese Post Office. [] Tsingtao 淸島 Shantung (Ter. 山東租借地 36.4 N 120.18E
  2. ^ “Ch’ing-tao or Tsing·tao”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158, column 2:Ch’ing-tao (chǐngʹdouʹ) or Tsing·tao (tsǐngʹtouʹ, chǐngʹdouʹ)

Further reading

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Anagrams

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