Tientsin
Britishnoun
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The coin, which was created at the Chinese Central Mint in Tientsin, is missing from most of the significant collections of Chinese coins, according to the auction house.
From Fox News
“And yet,” said Byerley, “you have an unemployment problem there at Tientsin. Can you be over-producing? It is incongruous to think of Asia as suffering from too much food.”
From Literature
Two hours after my tea-slurping seminar, I went for a long stroll through the tea plantation abutting Tientsin.
From New York Times
She prepared herself to return to Tientsin, where she had dishonored her widowhood by becoming the third concubine to a rich man.
From Literature
After a second Opium War, the Tientsin Treaties legalized the ravaging opium trade, legalized a British-French-American control of China’s customs.
From Literature
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