Ch'ang-te

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tê².[1]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chängʹdǔʹ

Proper noun

Ch'ang-te

  1. Alternative form of Changde.
    • 1971, Liew Kit Siong, Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution‎[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:
      At the time of the China Resurgence Society, when Sung was preparing a revolt in the prefecture of Ch’ang-te, Chiang I-wu was a student in a teachers’ training school in Ch’ang-te, and he apparently shared Sung’s activities.
    • 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
      In Hunan the Left Army was located at Ch’ang-te under a Ch’ang-te merchant named Ch’en Yu-lung.
    • 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River‎[3], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 110:
      In West Hunan (1943), a collection of essays about the places he knew so well, Shen describes the waterfront scene in Ch'ang-te, on the Yuan River.

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References

  1. ^ Changde, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ang-te, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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