Dongting

dòngtīng dòngtíng English Lake Dongting Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ 1, 5 Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dongting(l)/Tung-t'ing romanization for the en cmn 洞庭 Dòngtíng. Pronunciation en /dɔŋ.tɪŋ/ /dɒŋ-/ do͝ong′tĭng′Tungting Lake 1961 1 en Dong ting Proper noun en lake p/Hunan c/China. en 1832 June Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae. w:The Chinese Repository https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1218unse/ Canton I 2 1554371 39 https://archive.org/details/chineserepositor1218unse/page/39/ The Tung-ting-hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yang-tsze-keang. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting-hoo to the city of Woo-chang-Foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yang-tsze-keang lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, north and south of the lakes. on en 1833 1832 June Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le Mingche Tsinglae. w:The Chinese Repository 2nd https://archive.org/details/thechineserepository18321833v1.112/ Canton I 2 1554371 39 https://archive.org/details/thechineserepository18321833v1.112/page/n46/ The Tungting hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yangtsze keäng. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting hoo to the city of Woochang foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yangtsze keäng lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, meaning north and south of the lakes. on en 1912 Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/ Hachette & Company 58389296 400 https://archive.org/details/northernchinaval00madr/page/400/ https://books.google.com/books?id=lkNMAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA400 The creeks of Hsin-ho K’ou and Tiao-kuan K’ou communicate with the N. of Lake Tung-t’ing. on en May 11, 1943 May 10, 1943 CHINESE STILL FIRM ON TUNGTING SHORES; Japanese Said to Have Made No Decisive Gains in Day https://web.archive.org/web/20231102221737/https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/11/archives/chinese-still-firm-on-tungting-shores-japanese-said-to-have-made-no.html 02 November 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1943/05/11/archives/chinese-still-firm-on-tungting-shores-japanese-said-to-have-made-no.html 8 The Chinese High Command announced tonight that fighting was continuing on the north shore of Tungting Lake, in Northern Hunan, and south of the Yangtze River, in Southern Hupeh, where the Japanese scored no decisive successes during the past twenty-four hours. Enemy attempts to land on the south shore of Tungting Lake again were repulsed. on en 1968 HUPEH w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/ 11 68-10064 1036882 902 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/page/n935/ 1 The Yangtze and its chief tributary, the Han, meander in great loops past a maze of shallow lakes, the chief of which, the Tung-t'ing Hu, lies just south of the border of Hunan. on en June 14, 2011 Coco Liu China's Drought Threatens Farm Income, Drinking Water, Wildlife and Hydropower https://web.archive.org/web/20210211183705/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/06/14/14climatewire-chinas-drought-threatens-farm-income-drinkin-63459.html 11 February 2021 w:Climatewire "Because of the drought, what used to be a lake is now dry land," said Liu Jinghua, a woman living by China's second-largest freshwater lake -- Dongting -- which has lost two-thirds of its water over the past few months. en July 7, 2017 Flooding in southern China causes deaths, damage and anger https://web.archive.org/web/20170707124507/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170707124507/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/flooding-landslides-causing-deaths-anger-in-southern-china/2017/07/07/f10682de-62ce-11e7-80a2-8c226031ac3f_story.html?utm_term=.6d04c24f9274 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/flooding-landslides-causing-deaths-anger-in-southern-china/2017/07/07/f10682de-62ce-11e7-80a2-8c226031ac3f_story.html July 7, 2017 Asia & Pacific Water levels in the Xiangjiang have exceeded records set during 1998’s catastrophic flooding along the Yangtze, China’s mightiest river of which the Xiangjiang is a major tributary. Levels in Dongting lake, one of China’s largest freshwater water bodies, have also risen into the danger zone. en Translations lake Chinese: Cantonese: yue 洞庭 Mandarin: cmn 洞庭 Dòngtíng Japanese: ja References Further reading en 2008 Dongting Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1044 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1044/ 3