Ying-te

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English

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Map including Ying-te (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 英德 (Yīngdé) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying¹-tê².

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Ying-te

  1. Alternative form of Yingde
    • 1963 March 8 [1963 January 17], Chung-shan Medical College Furnishes Reports on Parasitic Diseases[1], Foreign Documents Division, CIA, →OCLC, page 11:
      From 1957 to the present, we have, with the help of concerned units, studied ways to destroy the snail by using reservoir water to drown it, especially in Ying-te and San-shui.
    • 1966, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861[2], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 110:
      During the 1930's the percentages of clan fields in the delta region were the following: Hua-hsien, 50 percent; Ying-te, 20; Tung-kuan, 20; Hsiang-shan, 50; Nan-hai, 40; Shun-te, 60; Hsin-hui, 60; En-p'ing, 40; P'an-yu, 50.
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China[3], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
      The main rice-producing areas were Kuang-chou, Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou, Ying-te, Hsun-chou and Hsiang-chou.
    • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Mining and Manufacturing”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China[4], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100, column 1:
      The pyrite output in 1961 was 1.2 million tons, derived mainly from the Hsiang Shan mine in Anhwei and the Ying-te mine in Kwangtung.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ying-te.

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