Ta-ch'ing
See also: Taching
English edit
Etymology edit
From Mandarin 大慶/大庆 (Dàqìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻing⁴.[1][2]
Proper noun edit
Ta-ch'ing
- Alternative form of Daqing (Oil Field)
- 1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 350:
- Four years earlier Mao had declared this area a model of self-sufficiency, saying, "In industry learn from Ta-ch'ing."
- 1977, Yuan-li Wu, Japan's Search for Oil[3], Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:
- From the point of view of Japanese refineries and oil importers, the shorter distance to low-sulphur Chinese oil from Ta-ch'ing as an alternative to Indonesian oil appeared especially attractive, although the high wax content of Ta-ch'ing oil is a problem.
- 1978, Drew Middleton, The Duel of the Giants: China and Russia in Asia[4], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
- From the standpoint of the Sino-Soviet feud, it is well to remember, too, that the Ta-chʻing field in northern Manchuria, China's most productive, is highly vulnerable to Soviet bombs and missiles and, in the event of war, would be one of the first objectives of a Russian offensive.
Translations edit
Daqing — see Daqing
References edit
- ^ Daqing, Wade-Giles romanization Ta-ch’ing, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 484: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Ta-ch'ing (Daqing) 大庆”