Tsingtao
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Postal Romanization[1] of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 青島／青岛 (Qīngdǎo).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Tsingtao
- Alternative form of Qingdao
- 1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times[3], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 224:
- But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.
- 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949[4], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22:
- Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.
- 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China[5], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
- Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, "insisting that we leave." The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.
- 1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea[6], Facts On File, →ISBN, page 269:
- 1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsingtao.
References edit
- ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese).[1], Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 31: “The romanisation adopted is […] that used by the Chinese Post Office. […] Tsingtao 淸島 Shantung (Ter. 山東租借地 36.4 N 120.18E”
- ^ “Ch’ing-tao or Tsing·tao”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158, column 2: “Ch’ing-tao (chǐngʹdouʹ) or Tsing·tao (tsǐngʹtouʹ, chǐngʹdouʹ)”
Further reading edit
- “Tsingtao”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Tsingtao, Tsing-tao at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Tsingtao”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Tsingtao”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Tsingtao” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.