Paoting

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 保定 (Bǎodìng).

Proper noun

Paoting

1. Alternative form of Baoding
   • 1933, Chen Han-seng, “The Agrarian Problem of China”, in Bruno Lasker, W. L. Holland, editors, Problems of the Pacific, 1933‎^[1], Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, page 272:

     Ting Hsien is one of the outstandingly rich districts of Hopei; Paoting may be better considered as representative of the agrarian condition on the plain of this province. A rural survey of Paoting was carried out by the National Research Institute of Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, in co-operation with the Peiping Institute of Social Research.

   • 1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang‎^[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34:

     In 1900 Feng had his first fleeting contact with foreigners. When Boxers became active in the Paoting area, the troops stationed there were ordered to suppress them. The officers, however, admired the Boxers’ anti-foreign activity, and ignored their orders. Boxer drills were openly conducted in the vicinity of Paoting until April, when an order came through commanding the military to train the Boxers.

   • 1968, Joseph Earle Spencer, “PAOTING”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[3], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 237, column 1:

     PAOTING (CH’ING-YÜAN, TSINGYUAN), capital of Hopeh province, China, is 90 mi. (145 km.) S.W. of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway.

   • 1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers‎^[4], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:

     In North China, NLVC headquarters moved from Peiping to Paoting, one of the three reconcentration points for NLVC members. There, they rallied to the support of Sun Ku-ying, Shih Yu-san, and other 29th Army commanders. However, the Japanese blitzkrieg made effective resistance impossible. On September 24, Paoting fell.

   • 1976 December 26, “Mainland turmoil said spreading into Peiping”, in Free China Weekly‎^[5], volume XVII, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

     Rampaging turmoil of looting food and weapons and armed struggles in the Paoting district of Hopei Province are expanding and threatening the security of the "capital" of Peiping, according to an intelligence report in Taipei.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Paoting.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paoting”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 2
• “Paoting”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Paoting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Paoting” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.