Tsinan

From Mandarin 濟南／济南 (Jǐnán).

• enPR: tsǐʹnänʹ

Tsinan

1. Alternative form of Jinan (city in Shandong Province, China)
   • 1921, John Dewey, China, Japan and the U.S.A.‎, Republic Publishing Co., Inc., page 14:

     It is only a slight exaggeration to say that they "took" the Chinese Tsinan before they took the German Tsing-tao....When the Japanese consul at Tsinan was visited by Chinese officials in protest against these illegal arrests, the consul disclaimed all jurisdiction.

   • 1969, Robert Payne, Chiang Kai-shek‎, New York: Weybright and Talley, page 139:

     Some fifty thousand Japanese forces straddled the Kiaochow-Tsinan railway, determined to protect Japanese "interests" in Shantung. There were occasional clashes and skirmishes with Chinese troops, and several hundred Chinese soldiers were killed. The Japanese occupied Tsinan, took over the telegraph and post offices, put up sandbags in the streets, and gave every appearance of preparing to contend for the province of Shantung against four revolutionary armies.

   • 2013, Graeme Kent, On the Run‎, New York: MJF Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 283:

     For ten years, Lowell Skinner worked in a paper mill in the city of Tsinan.

   • 2014, David Downing, Jack of Spies‎, Soho Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:

     There was a British consulate in Tsinan, but also another German concession.
     . . .
     It looked like he could relax until they reached Tsinan.

• “Tsinan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Tsinan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tsinan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Tsinan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

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