T'ung-hua
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 通化 (Tōnghuà) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻung¹-hua⁴.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]T'ung-hua
- Alternative form of Tonghua
- 1929 March, Raymond A. Lane, “Up the Yalu River”, in The Field Afar[2], volume XXIII, number III, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83:
- Shortly after the party reached An-tung, it was reported that the Japanese officer had been killed by the bandits, who had carried their captive to the vicinity of T’ung-hua, the site of our latest foundation.
- 1972, Lucien Bianco, “Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933”, in Jean Chesneaux, editor, Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840-1950[3], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:
- T’ung-hua hsien, between Mukden and Kirin, provides another example. During late 1927 and early 1928, T’ung-hua was the scene of a rather large uprising instigated by the Big Knife Society (Ta-tao Hui).
Translations
[edit]Tonghua — see Tonghua
References
[edit]- ^ Tonghua, Wade-Giles romanization T’ung-hua, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
[edit]- “T’ung-hua”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.