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Taikang

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See also: Tàikāng

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From Mandarin 太康 (Tàikāng).

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Taikang

  1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
    • [1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:
      To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.]
    • [1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society"[1], Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83:
      T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.]
    • 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan[2], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
      The Communist army in Huaiyang, for instance, worked out a defense agreement with a village pact in neighboring Taikang county to jointly protect themselves against puppet troops and local bandits.
    • 2017 March 27, Laura Zhou, “Construction crew in China unearths tomb with 500-year-old mummies”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 March 2017, Around the Nation‎[4]:
      Anthropologists in central China are carefully preserving the mummies of a couple accidentally found in a tomb that is believed to date back some 500 years, mainland media reported.
      The tomb was unearthed in Taikang county in Zhoukou, Henan province by a construction crew that was installing plumbing, the Dahe Daily reported.

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