Tungcheng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 東城／东城 (Dōngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-chʻêng².

Proper noun

Tungcheng

Alternative form of Dongcheng
- 1974 May 17, Peking Review‎^[1], →OCLC, archived from the original on January 29, 2013:
  […] of the "May 7" Cadre School of the Tungcheng District in. Peking Municipality.
- 1975 August, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East‎^[2], number 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 3:
  In the past few days, such get-togethers were held by armymen and people in various districts, counties and many grassroots units in the capital. The Tungcheng District invited combat heroes who distinguished themselves in the battle to defend China's Hsisha Islands, to make reports.
- 1976 August 15, L. Chen, “No room for love in Maoist world”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XVII, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
  The story of the hapless young lovers[...]The two of them—workers at two neighboring factories in Peiping’s Tungcheng district—had been close since childhood and decided that they were old enough and good enough to get married. They went to the district office for registration but were told that they should first get permission—letters of introduction for marriage registration—from their work units.
- 1978 December 6 [1978 November 28], “Seriously Attend to Land Requisitioning”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[4], volume I, number 235, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, translation of original by Ou Ching-lin [2976 1987 2651], →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 12‎^[5]:
  The former Tungcheng District bicycle flywheel plant (now under the Peking Municipal First Bureau of Light Industry), without asking permission from the Peking Municipal Revolutionary Committee, last July privately signed an agreement with the Hsiaohuangchuang production brigade of Taiyangkung commune in Chaoyang District and illegally occupied 16 mou of farmland.