Chingtao

See also: Ch'ing-tao

English

Etymology

From Wade–Giles.

Proper noun

Chingtao

1. Alternative form of Qingdao
   • 1897 December 3, North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[1], volume LIX, number 1583, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 982, column 1:

     A CORRESPONDENT in Shantung sends us the following note, under date the 23rd ult., and adds that "the subject is of vital interest for commerce, especially if this action of Germany's contemplates the opening of Chingtao as a port in the near future. It is well known that such has been their desire for some time past."

   • 1930 June 21, “On the Communist and Bandit Front”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume 53, number 3, →OCLC, page 92, column 2:

     Telegram from Gen. Chang Hui-chan reported that most of red-bandit activities in Kiangsi had been suppressed, the reds fleeling in the direction of Chingtao.

   • 1982 November 21, “82-year-old philanthropist brings relief to the sick”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報]‎^[3], volume XXIII, number 46, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:

     Mrs. Chia was born in Chingtao city in Shantung province on the mainland.

   • 2008 December, Michiko Ikeda, “Anti-Japanese Boycotts as Trade Barriers in China”, in Japan in Trade Isolation, 1926-37 and 1948-85‎^[4], 1st English edition, Tokyo: International House of Japan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:

     In Tientsin and in Shantung Province in north China, Japan’s exports declined to a lesser degree because the boycotts were much less vigorous.³⁵ They fell only slightly in Tientsin, and it was in this region, in Chingtao, that they first started to recover.

   • 2014, “"Against Foreign Imperialist Oppression": East Asia I”, in Fairy Tales, Patriotism & the Nation State: The Rise of the Modern West and the Response of the World‎^[5], Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 552:

     Qingdao with its excellent harbor became the German administrative center (from which time dates one of China’s famous beers, known by its old Wade-Giles transliteration Chingtao).

   • 2015, Manako Ogawa, “Japanese Fishermen Enter Hawaiian Waters”, in Sea of Opportunity: The Japanese Pioneers of the Fishing Industry in Hawaiʻi‎^[6], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:

     Overwhelmed by the huge number of their rivals, the fishermen of Okikamuro inevitably headed to Taiwan, Chingtao in China, and, finally, Hawaiʻi during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Further reading

• “Chingtao”, in Collins English Dictionary.