Tahsing

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A form of Daxing — A former capital of China under the Sui Dynasty, now within Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Daxing.

    Huangtukang, or "Yellow Earth Mound", is the name of a well-known commune in Tahsing county south of Peking which I chose out of the many good communes around to visit, for some of its brigades have much to show in the way of dramatic change.

    中国见闻

    1973, Rewi Alley, “Peking & Tientsin”, in Travels in China, 1966-71 [中国见闻], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 526
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    Teachers and students of the Peking Agricultural College have gone in groups to make on-the-spot studies and work in the communes. Those working in Tahsing County are experimenting together with local peasants to transform the alkaline flats there into rice fields.

    1960 July 12, “Students Do Their Stuff Too”, in Peking Review, volume III, number 28, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2013, pages 3–4

    Even a short item, like Shoes to Strike Roots, by the amateur propaganda team of Tahsing county, near Peking, may use an elementary dialectic. This ten-minute dance provides a reminder of a tradition of the revolutionary wars when village women showed their support for the red soldiers by sewing cloth shoes for them out of pieces of rag.

    1975, Roger Howard, “New Workers' and Peasants' Amateur Theatre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XIV, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, column 2

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