Tan-tung

See also: Tantung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 丹東 / 丹东 (Dāndōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-tung¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tänʹto͞ongʹ

Proper noun

Tan-tung

1. Alternative form of Dandong
   • 1965 March 31 [1965 March 12], “A Solemn Ceremony to Change the Name of An-tung Municipality to Tan-tung Municipality”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China, number 271, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Jen-min Jih-pao, Peiping, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, pages 47, 48:

     The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in China, and the Korean comrades in Tan-tung attended the meeting upon invitation. […]
     Chief delegate Li Ken-ho gave a speech upon request under loud applauses. He said that Hsin-i-chou and Tan-tung were connected not only geographically, but also by the common ideology and common struggle goal of the people of the two nations.

   • 1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Mobilizing Urban Youth to Go to the Countryside”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China‎^[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

     Applicants to higher schools had to pass entrance examinations reminiscent of those administered before 1966. This change, which came under attack in the fall of 1973 during the campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, pleased middle school teachers in No. 6 Middle School in Tan-tung, Liaoning.

   • 1977, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[3], numbers 368-385, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 29:

     In the course of the industrial development, the Tan-tung municipality in Liaoning province has raised a technical working force with socialist consciousness.

   • 1978, Hsia Chih-yen, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking‎^[4], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:

     Half a year ago, Hsia Yu-min and Tall Man Li had delivered a big bundle of goods to Tan-tung City in Liaoning Province.

   • 2006, “ANTUNG”, in Encyclopedia Americana‎^[5], volume 1, →OCLC, page 83:

     In 1965 Antung's name was changed to Tan-tung. Tan-tung is in Liaoning province, near the mouth of the Yalu River on the North Korean border.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tan-tung.

Translations

Dandong — see Dandong

Further reading

• “Tan-tung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Tan-tung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Tan-tung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.