Pa-tung

patung English thumb|Map including Pa-tung (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 巴東 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pa¹-tung¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Badong. en https://archive.org/details/throughyangtsego00littuoft/ 1898 Through the Yang-tse Gorges Archibald John Little 3rd w:Sampson Low, Marston & Company 1098571240 72 https://archive.org/details/throughyangtsego00littuoft/page/72/ The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district. en https://archive.org/details/upyangtse00park/ 1899 Up the Yang-tse E. H. Parker w:Kelly & Walsh Shanghai 615648640 43 https://archive.org/details/upyangtse00park/page/43 One side of the gully (ch'i) belongs to Pa-tung, the other to Wu-shan. en 1988 1981 w:Hualing Nieh Engle Jane Parish Yang; Linda Lappin Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China https://archive.org/details/mulberrypeachtwo0000nieh/ Boston w:Beacon Press 0-8070-7110-2 87-47881 17619611 16–17 https://archive.org/details/mulberrypeachtwo0000nieh/page/16/ When we got to Pa-tung, we found out that all the steamships have been requisitioned to transport ammunition and troops. Germany has surrendered to the Allies and the Japanese are desperately fighting for their lives. en https://archive.org/details/millenniumhistor00fern_0/ 1996 w:Felipe Fernández-Armesto Millennium w:Touchstone Books 0-684-82536-8 95-18899 1186898801 128 https://archive.org/details/millenniumhistor00fern_0/page/128/ The modesty of the outpost he visited in Pa-tung was offset by a sub-prefectural residence of incomparable beauty, where an unambitious official, willing to make a reality of the literary cult of rural bliss, “could sleep and eat in the pavilion and his pleasure would be boundless.” Translations Badong