Meaning of T'ien-ching | Babel Free

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Synonym of Tianjin.

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“The great so-called seaport of T‘ien-ching (Tientsin), some 75 miles to the southeast, actually lies 40 miles from the sea on the Hai Ho, which is unsuitable for any but light⟳ navigation.”

“Thus, in climatic terms, many coastal stations in northern China display characteristics of inland stations; T’ien-ching, for example, lies about five hundred miles from the Pacific edge of the continental shelf East China sea, and is in effect, then, five hundred miles “inland.””

“When P’u-yi arrived in Ch’ang-ch’un to take⟳ up his post⟳ as Chief Executive of Manchukuo, he was accompanied by only one wife, the Empress Beauty in Flower: his Secondary Consort, Elegant Ornament, had run⟳ off and divorced him in T’ien-ching the previous year.”

“The British invoked the clause of the Nanking treaty, which had agreed that foreign vessels and their crews would not submit⟳ to Chinese law, Britain and France joined forces, and in 1857 a combined naval force⟳ seized Canton, taking several key Chinese forts near T’ien-ching (now Tianjin) a few months later.”

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