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Tientsin

noun

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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... Rocky Mountains might have been totally different. Millions of Chinamen instead of thousands might now be in possession of that great region of our land, and great cities like Canton and Fuchau, Pekin and Tientsin, might rise up on the view instead of San Diego and Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco, with their idolatry and peculiar life and customs. Another question may be asked here by way of speculation. What would have been the effect ...

— By the Golden Gate • Joseph Carey

... safely arrive in the Hotel des Colonies, where my father found awaiting him two telegrams from the Imperial Palace. These telegrams ordered my father to go to Peking at once, but, as the river to Tientsin was frozen, it was out of the question for us to go by that route, and as my father was very old and quite ill at that time, in fact constantly under the doctor's care, the only accessible way, via Chinwangtao, was ...

— Two Years in the Forbidden City • The Princess Der Ling

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