Teng

plural Tengs

1. A surname from Hokkien.

plural Tengs · alternative Deng

1. A surname from Mandarin.

   The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.

   自由中國週報

   1982 April 4, “Scandal triggers friction”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報], volume XXII, number 13, Taipei, page 3, column 3

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   In his speech at the mass rally mentioned above, Chiang Tse-min described Teng as a loyal comrade-in-arms of Mao Tse-tung and the most prominent successor and developer of Mao Tse-tung thought. He stressed the way that both Teng and Mao formulated their policies in line with the specific situation in China.

   1996, An-chia Wu, “The CCP's "Socialist Market Economy" Proposal”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Contemporary China in the Post-Cold War Era, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29

   Prosecutors said a man surnamed Teng (鄧) admitted to placing a note in the front windshield wiper of a car parked in Kaohsiung’s Linyuan District (林園) in October last year.

   2023 July 27, Huang Chia-lin, Jason Pan, “Court fines man for leaving ‘threatening’ note in parking furor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2023, Taiwan News, page 2

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Teng County, former name of Tengzhou: a county-level city of Zaozhuang, Shandong, China.

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   To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”

   1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195

   After his death, Xi Zhong was buried twenty-five li (about twelve kilometres) to the south of Xuecheng in Shandong Province, where people could find his tomb. And where he tested his cart, sixty li (thirty kilometres) from Teng County in Shandong Province, it is said that for years after his death, people could still see the wheel tracks.

   The World of Chinese Myths

   1995 September, Jianing (陈家宁) Chen, 杨阳 [Yang Yang], “The God of Boats and the God of Carts”, in 中国神话世界 [The World of Chinese Myths], 1st edition, Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159

1. A county of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.

   The production command group of Kwangsi Regional Revolutionary Committee recently held in Teng County an on-the-spot symposium on rape production.

   1972 April 13 [1972 April 6], “Kwangsi Symposium Discusses Production of Rape Plant”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 73, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service, translation of original in Cantonese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 4

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   Dozens of family members congregated at the heavily-secured checkpoint leading to the site in Teng county in southern China's Guangxi region in pairs or small groups on Wednesday.

   2022 March 23, Martin Quin Pollard, Thomas Suen, Tony Munroe, “At China plane crash site, relatives wait in grim vigil”, in Alexandra Hudson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2022, China