Meaning of T'eng-ch'ung | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“Most of the people have migrated from Lung-ling and to a lesser extent from T'eng-ch'ung. The people are simple and primitive, and the females all bind their feet.”

“K'un-ming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, is also a communication center, with highways leading to Szechwan Province in the north, to Kuei-yang in the east, and, through Ta-li and Hsia-kuan in western Yunnan to the important frontier town of T'eng-ch'ung in the west.”

“² Defeated Yunnanese Muslim troops and bands of freebooters of indeterminate origin did, however, trouble the northern and eastern Shan States, for example, Li Kuo-lun, the rebel Muslim governor (Ch Ta-ssu-k'ung) of T'eng-ch'ung (Momien), who fled to the Shan States with many of his followers, here he joined forces with a local rebel, Sang Hai, and "the result was the absolute ruin of the great state of Hsen-wi[.]"”

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