T'ang-shan
See also: Tangshan and Tángshān
English
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Map including 唐山 T'ANG-SHAN (AMS, 1955) →OCLC
Etymology
From Mandarin 唐山 (Tángshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻang²-shan¹.[1]
Proper noun
T'ang-shan
- Alternative form of Tangshan
- 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, OCLC 13180751, page 10:
- Bronzes from the Yen state, which were stylistically heavily affected by the Chʻin art, were found in Tʻang-shan, Hopei Province, and are now displayed in the Peking Museum of History.
- 1968, “CH'IN-HUANG-TAO (CHINWANGTAO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 658, column 2:
- Export trade originated almost entirely from the coal field and comprised not only coal but also coke, firebrick and cement manufactured at T'ang-shan, the industrial town built on the coal field.
- 1971, William Watson, Cultural Frontiers in Ancient East Asia, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-159591, OCLC 906061811, page 124:
- A pendant to the Li Yü style is that represented by the bronze vessels found at T'ang-shan in Hopei, where the local influences are distinct.
- 1989, Brian J. Knapp, Earthquake, Steck-Vaughn, →ISBN, LCCN 89-21574, OCLC 20130915, page 17:
- In the famous T'ang-shan region in 1556 an earthquake dislodged vast amounts of this silt. About 830,000 people were killed. The exact number isn't known because records kept at the time are not accurate. Still, it was the largest earthquake disaster known in human history.
- 2001, Nicholas Wade, editor, The New York Times Book of Natural Disasters, Lyons Press, →ISBN, OCLC 779059481, page 44:
- The next quake was less merciful: in 1976, 240,000 people were killed, and some 500,000 injured, in the Chinese city of T'ang-shan. The earthquake struck at night, and many people were crushed in their beds as their houses collapsed on top of them.
- 2011 July 28, “Today in History”, in Aruba Today, OCLC 1011477511, page 27:
- 1976 - An earthquake kills more than 240,000 people and almost completely destroys the city of T’ang-shan in northeastern China.
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Translations
Tangshan — see Tangshan
References
- Tangshan, Wade-Giles romanization T’ang-shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica