T'ang-shan

See also: Tangshan and Tángshān

English

Map including 唐山 T'ANG-SHAN (AMS, 1955) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 唐山 (Tángshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻang²-shan¹.

Proper noun

T'ang-shan

1. Alternative form of Tangshan
   • 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art‎^[1], Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1958, “China, Industry and Commerce”, in C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, The Pattern of Asia‎^[2], Edgewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., published 1961, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 251:

     Here are the K’ai-lan coal mines, China’s second largest, and the three industrial centers— T’ang-shan, with its large cement factory; Ch’in-huang-tao, the coal export port and the site of the largest glass factory in China; and Tientsin, port as well as the chief cotton textile and flour-milling center for north China.

   • 1968, “CH'IN-HUANG-TAO (CHINWANGTAO)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[3], Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[4], Steck-Vaughn, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[5], Lyons Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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^[6], →OCLC, page 27:

     1976 - An earthquake kills more than 240,000 people and almost completely destroys the city of T’ang-shan in northeastern China.

Translations

Tangshan — see Tangshan