Taching
See also: Ta-ch'ing
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 大慶／大庆 (Dàqìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻing⁴.
Proper noun
Taching
- Alternative form of Daqing
- 1973 April 29, “Red petroleum output is inadequate”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2:
- Taching is supposed to be accounting for about a third of the total mainland oil output.
- 1976, Wilfred Burchett, China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, OCLC 1020433768, OL 4941514M, page 114:
- That there was no 'oil boom town' atmosphere at Taching, no bars, brothels or night clubs doing a roaring trade as technicians and oil drillers with fat pay cheques swaggered in from lonely drilling sites for a long week-end, obviously did not surprise us. That concept of 'Great Celebration' left for Taiwan with the Kuomintang. It was difficult at first to locate Taching city - an oilfield capital.
- 1993, Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editor, Forces for Change in Contemporary China, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, LCCN 93-15124, OCLC 27812376, OL 1406789M, page 274:
- Mainland China's petroleum industry enjoyed spectacular growth between 1960 and 1978, when the Taching (Daqing) oilfield in Heilungkiang (Heilongjiang) Province began to operate on a large-scale basis.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taching.
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Translations
Daqing — see Daqing
Further reading
- “Taching, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- cathing, chating, gnathic