Tinpak

alternative Tien-pak

1. datedSynonym of Dianbai: the Cantonese-derived name.

   He will fly back to Spain if the condition of his damaged airplane at Tinpak, China, permits.

   1926 May 28, “Spaniard May Fly Home from Manila”, in Oklahoma City Times, volume XXXVII, number 18, page 2, column 1

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   At Tinpak the chief magistrate, who had become slightly acquainted with the English from residing a short time in the house of a Hong merchant at Canton, was remarkably attentive to the officers employed on the survey in the China seas, and even offered them his assistance in their particular pursuits.

   1817, Henry Ellis, Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton, London: John Murray, page 59

   Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong.

   1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 242

   After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town.

   1923, Maryknoll Mission Letters China, volume 1, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 195

   The communique also announced that Tinpak, on the Kwangtung coast 150 miles west of Hong Kong, had been retaken.

   1945 July 17, “Chinese Units Storm Suburbs of Kweilin”, in The Daily Sun, volume 28, number 28, page 1, column 5

   In South China, the Chinese after recapturing Tinpak to disrupt the Japanese communications along the coastal highway between the Liuchow peninsula and Canton, have now advanced to a point 9 miles east of Tinpak.

   1945 July 20, “Chinese Recapture Jap Base in Kwangsi”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXIII, number 171, Bombay, →OCLC, page 5

   Synonyms: Dianbai