Tongguan

alternative T'ung-kuan

1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

   * Unit to acquire gold mine in Tongguan county of Shaanxi province for HK$406 million

   2017 October 26, “BRIEF-China Mining Resources says unit to acquire gold mine for HK$406 mln”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023, CONSUMER PRODUCTS & RETAIL NEWS

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   In many localities it remained difficult to keep the ti-fang and pao-chia functionally apart. For instance, a ti-fang agent was instituted (1763) in each of the villages of T'ung-kuan Hsien (Shensi) to supervise the p'ai divisions and to assist the pao-chang in carrying out his police control duties.

   [1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Police Control: The Pao-chia System”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63

   Travelling by day and resting by night, Kuo Tieh-shan came to the province of Shensi. Since Mr Yin was the magistrate of Tungkuan County, Kuo had to go out of his way to call on him.

   [1973, Wu Ching-tzu, “Kuo Tieh-shan encounters tigers in the mountain. A monk from Sweet Dew Temple meets his foe”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., The Scholars, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 419

   With the transfer after 907 of the capital to the eastern plains. T'ung-kuan lost its major defensive role; it remained an important strategic place, however, and was the site of a guard (wei) under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It became T'ung-kuan County under the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911).

   [1986, “T'ung-kuan”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 12, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 40, column 1

   Tong Pass, the eastern gate of the land within the passes, was already established by the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and its ruins now lie near Wucun Village in Tongguan County.

   1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38