Tangshan

American  

[tahng-shahn] / ˈtɑŋˈʃɑn /

Or T'angshan

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

1. a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China.

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Tangshan British  

/ ˈtæŋˈʃæn /

noun

1. an industrial city in NE China, in Hebei province: the 1976 earthquake, which killed an estimated 255 000 people, was the most lethal of the 20th century. Pop: 1 773 000 (2005 est)

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Tangshan

The search and rescue operation has ended and an investigation into the cause of the Sept. 2 flood is underway, the Tangshan city government said in a brief statement.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022

So far, the authorities said they had detained eight civil servants, including the head of one district police station in Tangshan, on suspicion of offering protection to the defendants and accepting bribes.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

Authorities also said that the deputy chief of the Tangshan police had been removed and that five other police officials were being investigated over their handling of the attack.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

In the Tangshan incident, the initial police and media response appeared to focus on the attackers' links to local gangs and their criminal history.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022

Tangshan is a large city, apparently of recent growth on the railroad in a country where isolated conical hills rise one hundred or two hundred feet out of the flat, plains.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

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