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... Wade - Giles romanization CH'ING- TAO , Pinyin QINGDAO , port city , eastern Shan- tung sheng ( province ) , China . Tsingtao is lo- cated on the south coast of the Shantung Peninsula at the eastern entrance to Kiao- chow Bay , one of ...
... Wade - Giles romanization CH'ING- TAO , Pinyin QINGDAO , port city , eastern Shan- tung sheng ( province ) , China . Tsingtao is lo- cated on the south coast of the Shantung Peninsula at the eastern entrance to Kiao- chow Bay , one of ...
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... Wade returned to Cambridge and in 1888 was elected the uni- versity's first professor of Chinese . He had already written extensively on Chinese stud- ies , his Peking Syllabary ( 1859 ) providing the basis of the Wade - Giles system of ...
... Wade returned to Cambridge and in 1888 was elected the uni- versity's first professor of Chinese . He had already written extensively on Chinese stud- ies , his Peking Syllabary ( 1859 ) providing the basis of the Wade - Giles system of ...
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... Wade - Giles CHANG CHÜN - HSIANG ( b . 1909 , Chenchiang , Kiangsu province , China ) , leading playwright and mo- tion - picture director in Nationalist China and later in the People's Republic . Zhang was educated at Tsinghua ...
... Wade - Giles CHANG CHÜN - HSIANG ( b . 1909 , Chenchiang , Kiangsu province , China ) , leading playwright and mo- tion - picture director in Nationalist China and later in the People's Republic . Zhang was educated at Tsinghua ...
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