T'eng-ch'ung
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 騰衝/腾冲 (Téngchōng), Wade-Giles romanization: Tʻêng²-chʻung¹.
Proper noun
T'eng-ch'ung
- Alternative form of Tengchong
- 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, LCCN 67-16409, OCLC 473651484, page 304:
- Most of the people have migrated from Lung-ling and to a lesser extent from T'eng-ch'ung. The people are simple and primitive, and the females all bind their feet.
- 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, page 170:
- K'un-ming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, is also a communication center, with highways leading to Szechwan Province in the north, to Kuei-yang in the east, and, through Ta-li and Hsia-kuan in western Yunnan to the important frontier town of T'eng-ch'ung in the west.
- Jan 1988, Andrew D. W. Forbes, “History of Panglong, 1875-1900: A 'Panthay' (Chinese Muslim) Settlement in the Burmese Wa States”, in The Muslim World, volume 78, number 1, page 38-50:
- ² Defeated Yunnanese Muslim troops and bands of freebooters of indeterminate origin did, however, trouble the northern and eastern Shan States, for example, Li Kuo-lun, the rebel Muslim governor (Ch Ta-ssu-k'ung) of T'eng-ch'ung (Momien), who fled to the Shan States with many of his followers, here he joined forces with a local rebel, Sang Hai, and "the result was the absolute ruin of the great state of Hsen-wi[.]"