Dadukou
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大渡口 (Dàdùkǒu).
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Dadukou
- A district of Chongqing, China.
- [1944 November, “Public Health and Medicine”, in China Handbook 1937-1944[1], Chungking: Chinese Ministry of Information, →OCLC, page 404, column 2:
- A louse survey was made among students of primary schools and orphanages in the latter part of March, 1944, at Tatukou area outside Chungking. A total of 1,255 students were examined with 530 girls and 716 boys. […]
For the sake of convenience, and because of the seriousness of the malaria situation in the area, Tatukou on the outskirts of Chungking was chosen as the site for demonstration. […]
The survey was followed up by a study of the topography of Tatukou and disease-transmitting mosquitoes in the district.]
- 2010, Danke Li, Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China[2], University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:
- In the 1930s and 1940s, people from the same province tended to stick together in Chongqing. We moved to Dadukou, about twenty miles from the city, where many people from the Jiangxi Province lived during the war.
- 2012 May 8, Alex Frew McMillan, “Agile buys site in Chongqing to replenish land bank”, in Ryan Woo, editor, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 31 March 2023[4]:
- Agile has bought a 119,287-square-metre parcel in Dadukou District at an auction to replenish its land bank in Chongqing, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late Tuesday.
- 2016 July 21, Natalie Mu, “Chinese burglary suspect ‘confesses’ after woman victim massages his injured ankle”, in South China Morning Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 July 2016, China[6]:
- The unnamed burglar twisted his ankle while leaping from the third-floor balcony of a flat to a second-floor landing and then to the ground after a man living in the property in the Dadukou district of Chongqing came home while he was inside on Monday evening, […]