Ch'ang-t'ai
English edit
Etymology edit
From Mandarin 長泰／长泰 (Chángtài), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tʻai⁴.
Proper noun edit
Ch'ang-t'ai
- Alternative form of Changtai
- 1943, Chao-ying Fang, “CHU I-kuei [朱一貴]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644-1912)[1], volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 181, column 2:
- CHU I-kuei 朱一貴, d. c. 1721, desperado, was a native of Chʻang-tʻai, Fukien.
- 1990, E. B. Vermeer, editor, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries[2], E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
- As early as 1659, when the mouldering ruins of several big temples in Ch’ang-t’ai county had deprived the local government of a substantial part of its revenues, a magistrate name Yuan reversed the previous decision […]
- 1998, Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China[3], volume 8, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 349:
- Tai was a native of Ch’ang-t’ai county in Chang-chou, Fukien, and it is likely that connections with the Fukien traders who had been in the Macao area longer than the Portuguese influenced his attitudes.
- 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History[4], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
- According to Fu Yiling, permanent tenure became common during the Wanli period. Gu Yanwu noted that early in that period, a magistrate of Chang-chou had written that in Ch’ang-t’ai county irrigated farmland had just one owner, but in Lung-hsi, Nanking, and P'ing-ho counties three "owners" (chu).
Translations edit
Changtai — see Changtai