Ch'ang-t'ai

See also: chángtài, Changtai, and Chángtài

English

Map including CH'ANG-T'AI (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 長泰／长泰 (Chángtài), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tʻai⁴.

Proper noun

Ch'ang-t'ai

1. Alternative form of Changtai.
   • 1943, Chao-ying Fang, “CHU I-kuei [朱一貴]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644-1912)‎^[1], volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 181, column 2:

     CHU I-kuei 朱一貴, d. c. 1721, desperado, was a native of Chʻang-tʻai, Fukien.

   • 1977 August 19 [1977 March 1], “Fukien's Prefecture-County-Commune-Brigade Four-Level Agricultural Scientific Experimental Network Develops Continuously”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 391, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHUNG-KUO HSIN-WEN, p 10, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, AGRICULTURE, page 36:

     Last year, the province planted over 50,000 mou of hybrid paddy rice, and the seasonal output of over 900 mou therein exceeded 1,000 catties. San-ming prefecture launched mass soil surveys and obtained encouraging results. Ch'ang-t'ai County persevered in many items of scientific experiments such as soil improvement, additional fertilizing, and seed selection.

   • 1990, E. B. Vermeer, editor, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries‎^[2], E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:

     As early as 1659, when the mouldering ruins of several big temples in Ch’ang-t’ai county had deprived the local government of a substantial part of its revenues, a magistrate name Yuan reversed the previous decision […]

   • 1998, Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China‎^[3], volume 8, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 349:

     Tai was a native of Ch’ang-t’ai county in Chang-chou, Fukien, and it is likely that connections with the Fukien traders who had been in the Macao area longer than the Portuguese influenced his attitudes.

   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎^[4], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

     According to Fu Yiling, permanent tenure became common during the Wanli period. Gu Yanwu noted that early in that period, a magistrate of Chang-chou had written that in Ch’ang-t’ai county irrigated farmland had just one owner, but in Lung-hsi, Nanking, and P'ing-ho counties three "owners" (chu).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ang-t'ai.

Translations

Changtai — see Changtai

Anagrams

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