T'ai-p'ing

See also: tàipíng, Taiping, Tàipíng, Tai Ping, Tai-p'ing, and Tai-ping

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 太平 (Tàipíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-pʻing².

Proper noun

T'ai-p'ing

1. Alternative form of Taiping
   • 1898, Harlan P. Beach, Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang‎^[1], New York, →OCLC, page 154:

     Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864.

   • 2004, Jason C. Kuo, “Introduction”, in Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work‎^[2], Peter Lang, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).