Patung
See also: Pa-tung
English
Proper noun
Patung
- Alternative form of Badong
- 1941, Emil S. Fischer, Travels in China 1894-1940, volume I, Tientsin: Tientsin Press, OCLC 6524119, OL 15062161M, page 8:
- We are due at Patung to-morrow, which township is the last in the Province of Hupeh, before crossing over into Szechwan. We will pay off our junks at Patung and will travel in Chairs overland into the North Eastern section of Szechwan which is the westernmost province of China.
- 1968, Clubb, O. Edmund, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, LCCN 68-56634, OCLC 898891491, page 35:
- Ho Lung began to move in western Hupeh. Leaving his old haunts in the districts of Enshih and Haofeng in early April, he marched north, capturing and looting in rapid succession Patung, Tzukuei, Hsingshan, Yuan-an, Tangyang, and Kingmen.
- 1973 November, Chen Chang, “Fossils Sent from Across the Land”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 11, Peking, OCLC 7513641, page 44, columns 1, 2:
- In 1968 fossils of Gigantopithecus which lived over a million years ago were found in Hupeh province. Some of these were found in a heap of “dragon bones” of a purchasing station for traditional medicine in Patung county of Hupeh province.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Patung.
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Translations
Badong — see Badong