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Tientsin

noun
1.
A major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China.  Synonyms: T'ien-ching, Tianjin.






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"Tientsin" Quotes from Famous Books



... protests of the local authorities, and the cable companies experienced some difficulty in getting permission to land their cables. But during the winter of 1870-80, when war with Russia was threatened, the value of telegraphs was demonstrated to the Peking government. The Peiho at Tientsin was closed by ice against steamers, and news could only be carried to the capital by overland couriers from Shanghai. Before a year elapsed a land line of telegraph was being constructed between this port and Tientsin; in a few months the line was in working order, and the Chinese metropolis is ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various

... arriving in force in China after the capture of Peking and the ratification of the Tientsin Treaties in 1860, who so greatly contributed to making the false idea of Manchu absolutism current throughout the world; and in this work it was the foreign diplomat, coming to the capital saturated with the tradition of European absolutism, who played a not unimportant ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale



Words linked to "Tientsin" :   city, urban center, Communist China, Red China, mainland China, metropolis, People's Republic of China, Tianjin, PRC, china, Cathay



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