Meaning of Nantao | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of Nanshi.

Examples

“Those who have no intention of visiting the native city will get a better idea of it from this suburb of Nantao than from any Chinese street in the International Settlement.”

“Bombers over Nantao: the native city in the south rocks with terrific explosions. The capture of this city was an all-important step in the advance upon Nanking the capital.”

“It’s my aunt. During the Japanese invasion, she lost everything when the Japanese soldiers burned her area of Nantao city.”

“Away to the south-west ran the French Concession, its tree-lined avenues gashes of green through the grey roofs. Between it and the river lay the misshapen circle of the old Chinese City of Nantao, the city wall long since gone,¹ the narrow, stone streets now clean of the beggars, pimps and street-hawkers that used to infest its gloom.”

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