Tong'an
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editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同安 (Tóng'ān).
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- A district of Xiamen, Fujian, China, formerly a county.
- 2001, Lucien Bianco, “Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:
- Other cases include a dispute over sandy terrain in Yangzizhou, Puqi county, Hubei, on July 18, 1925 (ten killed, twelve wounded; Puqi WSZL, vol. 2, 1986, pp. 110-13) and one for three full years, from 1945 to 1948, in Tong’an, Fujian (Tong’an WSZL, vol. 9, 1989, p. 133).
- 2019, “Discussion and Analysis”, in 2019 Annual Report[2], Agricultural Bank of China, page 56:
- ABC Xiamen Tong'an Rural Bank Limited Liability Company was established in June 2012 in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with a registered capital of RMB100 million, 51% of which was held by the Bank.
- 2021 October 26, “This news report of a demolition incident in China's Xiamen city is from 2013”, in Agence France-Presse[3], sourced from AFP Hong Kong, archived from the original on October 05, 2024[4]:
- The video has been viewed more than 1,000 times after it was shared here on Twitter on October 20, 2021.
Its simplified Chinese-language caption translates as: "On October 16, in Tong'an district, Xiamen, Fujian, city management officers were injured by sulfuric acid and 19 people were burned."
- (historical) An ancient county of Fujian, China, including present-day Xiamen, Kinmen and part of Longhai.
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