Swatow

English thumb|Banknote of the National Industrial Bank of China, Swatow Branch (1920) Etymology From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 82 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/82/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Swatow zh 汕頭 ”[Kwangtung] zh 廣東 23.21N 116.40E of en nan-tws 汕頭 suan1 tao5.Shantou, conventional Swatow, in Encyclopædia Britannica Pronunciation en /swɑːˈtʰaʊ̯/, swäʹtouʹSwa·tow 746 1 swäʹtōʹen 1952 Swatow Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1853 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1853/ 2 (swäʹtouʹ swäʹtōʹ) Proper noun en dated en Shantou: the Teochew-derived name. en 1862 1859 w:John E. Ward Proclamation of JOHN E. WARD announcing exchange of ratifications of Treaty Treaties between the United States of America and China, Japan Lewchew and Siam, Acts of Congress, and the Attorney-General's Opinion, with the Decrees and Regulations Issued for the Guidance of U.S. Consular Courts in China https://archive.org/details/treatiesbetweenu00unit/ Hongkong 1291110764 22 https://archive.org/details/treatiesbetweenu00unit/page/22/ The ports of Cháu-chau or Swatau, in the province of Kwangtung, and Taiwan on Formosa in the province of Fuhkien, will be opened to American commerce, and for Americans to reside with their families, on and after the first day of January, 1860. on en https://archive.org/details/missionproblems00gibs/ 1902 Mission Problems and Mission Methods in South China J. Campbell Gibson 2nd Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier 56 https://archive.org/details/missionproblems00gibs/page/56/ This was much too plain speaking for the Imperial devotee, and Han Yu Han Yü was sentenced to death. On the remonstrance of his fellow-ministers this sentence was commuted, and he was banished under the guise of an appointment to the post of governor of what was then the barbarous region near Swatow. Here he taught the barbarous people, and is still remembered as their greatest benefactor. His expulsion from the demon of ignorance is symbolised in a legend of his expulsion from the rivers of a huge crocodile. The remonstrance which he addressed to it, which is to be found among his works, is a curious combination of solemnity and humour. en https://archive.org/details/tradingwithfare00compgoog/mode/2up 1920 Trading with the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient: Policies: Methods: Advertising: Credits: Financing: Documents: Deliveries Irving National Bank 2nd Houghton Mifflin Company New York 265 https://archive.org/details/tradingwithfare00compgoog/page/n298/mode Bangkok is twenty-five miles from the mouth of the River Menam Chow Phya. The usual route to the city is from Singapore, by steamer or rail, though several shipping lines carry cargo direct. There are also steamship connections with Hong Kong, direct or via Swatow, a coastal service between Bangkok and the ports of French Indo-China, and occasional sailings to Java. en https://archive.org/details/strongmanofchina0000berk 1938 Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek Robert Berkov Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 46 With Waichow subdued and the enemy troops in the entire area surrendering or in headlong flight, Chiang struck at another malcontent general and captured the coastal city of Swatow. en May 15, 1977 Political executions scare mainlanders https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-05-15_18_19/ Free China Weekly XVIII 19 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-05-15_18_19/page/n2/ A "public trial" at the "people’s park" in Swatow, KwantungKwangtung on April 5, the anniversary of the Tienanmen riots in Peiping, was followed by execution of 11 citizens. en 2015 Stephen Harding Last to Die : A Defeated Empire, A Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II https://archive.org/details/lasttodiedefeate0000hard_g0j4/ w:Da Capo Press 978-0-306-82518-7 2015003486 906798119 25 https://archive.org/details/lasttodiedefeate0000hard_g0j4/page/25/ There were none, and the only evidence of hostile action was some inaccurate anti-aircraft fire far below the F-7B as it made landfall just south of the first target, the port at Swatow. en 2015 Brian C. Bernards Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=R-_-CgAAQBAJ w:University of Washington Press 978-0-295-99501-4 2015025351 907447761 180 https://books.google.com/books?id=R-_-CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA180 The extant scholarship on Sinophone Thai literature attributes the uniqueness of such works as Stormy Yaowarat Road to three aspects of their evocation of Teochew: their use of the Chaoyang-Swatow (Chaoshan) dialect of Teochew (particularly in the spoken dialogues of the text), their depiction of specific Teochew cultural practices like the regions' unique opera (ngiu) and tea ceremony (gongfu cha), and their emphasis on Teochew cultural and linguistic cultivation and preservation-an emphasis woven into the theme of the narratives. en 2018 Diana Danxia Zheng Jia! The Food of Swatow and the Teochew Diaspora https://books.google.com/books?id=lARiuAEACAAJ 9780692138571 1125265422 https://web.archive.org/web/20220404222914/https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/salted-plum-steamed-fish My family in Swatow prepares this using a fresh fish and just a few pantry staples as part of a quick meal. en See also en Swabue References Further reading pn