Ta-ch'ing

See also: Taching

English

Map including Ta-ch'ing Yu-t'ian (Ta-ch'ing Oil Field) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 大慶 / 大庆 (Dàqìng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ta⁴-chʻing⁴.

Proper noun

Ta-ch'ing

1. Alternative form of Daqing (Oil Field)
   • 1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing‎^[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 350:

     Four years earlier Mao had declared this area a model of self-sufficiency, saying, "In industry learn from Ta-ch'ing."

   • 1977, Yuan-li Wu, Japan's Search for Oil‎^[3], Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50:

     From the point of view of Japanese refineries and oil importers, the shorter distance to low-sulphur Chinese oil from Ta-ch'ing as an alternative to Indonesian oil appeared especially attractive, although the high wax content of Ta-ch'ing oil is a problem.

   • 1978, Drew Middleton, The Duel of the Giants: China and Russia in Asia‎^[4], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:

     From the standpoint of the Sino-Soviet feud, it is well to remember, too, that the Ta-chʻing field in northern Manchuria, China's most productive, is highly vulnerable to Soviet bombs and missiles and, in the event of war, would be one of the first objectives of a Russian offensive.

   • 1980, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Economy Past and Present‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 218:

     The Ta-ch'ing Model The situation at Ta-ch'ing was quite different. This oil field had been discovered around 1960.

Translations

Daqing — see Daqing

Anagrams

• cathing, chating, gnathic