Dagu

See also: dagu

English

Alternative forms

• Taku

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大沽 (Dàgū).

Proper noun

Dagu

1. A subdistrict of Binhai district, Tianjin, China
   • [1964, Te-kong Tong, “The Pei-ho Expeditions—An Imperial Game”, in United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60‎^[1], Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163:

     On the shore at Ta-ku (on the northern coast of the mouth of the Pei-ho) they were received by Brigadier General Shuang-jui of the Tientsin garrison, and Wen-ch’ien, Ch’ang-lu salt controller.]

   • [1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, “British Policy and the Boxer Rising”, in Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900‎^[2], Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:

     On March 23, MacDonald formally requested that the Foreign Office send two warships to Ta-ku, the nearest port of Peking. The ships were required, he explained, for the protection of British missionaries, since new disturbances were breaking out in Shantung. He supported this appeal by pointing out that the United States was sending one ship to Ta-ku, that Italy had two ships ready to send, and that Germany had the use of her Kiaochow squadron.]

   • 2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China‎^[3] (Foreign Relations / World Politics), New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     With China’s defenses still in an inchoate state of development, British forces seized Guangzhou and the Dagu Forts in northern China, from which they could easily march on Beijing.

   • 2017, Robert W. Merry, “China”, in President McKinley: Architect of the American Century‎^[4] (Biography & Autobiography), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 414:

     The official said two British warships had been sent to Dagu, the coastal location nearest Beijing, to protect British lives and property. The United States also had sent a warship to Dagu, a response in part to an earlier attack by “secret society” mobs on an American medical mission near Chongjing.

Translations

subdistrict

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大沽 (Dàgū)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dagu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 951, column 3

Anagrams

• Guad., gaud