TANGSHAN

täng-shän, city (1994 est. pop. 1,110,200), NE Hebei prov., China. A coal-mining center in the Kailan basin, Tangshan is also a major industrial hub with iron- and steelworks. It was completely destroyed by a massive earthquake on July 28, 1976. The government estimated that over 250,000 people were killed. It has since been completely rebuilt. Its manufactures include machinery, motor vehicles, chemicals, textiles, glass, petroleum products, and cement.

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books on: Tangshan  - 244 results

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Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail
Book by Yongshun Cai; Stanford University Press, 2010
Subjects: China--Politics And Government--1976-2002, China--Politics And Government--2002-, Political Participation--China, Protest Movements--China, Social Movements--China
...hotel by the police and officials from Tangshan. Fortunately, the appeal materials...were detained reached the migrants in Tangshan, they were angered and planned to go...representatives of 20,000 migrants in Tangshan city in Hebei province. We come to Beijing...
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Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-Tung
Book by Tse-Tung Mao; Foreign Languages Press, 1963
Subjects: China--Politics And Government--1912-1949, Guerrilla Warfare
...in and near Chinchow, Shanhaikuan and Tangshan are isolated from each other, success...dispatch towards Chinchow, Shanhaikuan and Tangshan would be too small, the enemy in and...would probably fall back on Chinchow and Tangshan, and you would find it rather difficult...
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Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China
Book by Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank; Stanford University Press, 2009
Subjects: China--Religion, Religion And Politics--China, Religion And State--China
...other agencies. With the support of the Tangshan city government and health office, Liu...gongren liaoyangyuan ) and founded the Tangshan City Qigong Sanitarium ( Tangshanshi...Operating under the auspices of the Tangshan City Health Office ( Tangshanshi weishengju...
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Chinese Politics and the Cultural Revolution: Dynamics of Policy Processes
Book by Byung-Joon Ahn; University of Washington Press, 1976
Subjects: China--Politics And Government--1949-1976
...Education, and Political Development in Tangshan, 1956-1969," in The City in Communist...Organized According to Economic Regions in Tangshan Area," Ta-kung pao Peking , April...Education, and Political Development in Tangshan," p. 159. 33. NFJP, April 20...
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Selected Work: 1945-1949 - Vol. 5
Book by Tse-Tung Mao; International Publishers, 1954
Subjects: China--Politics And Government, Communism--China
Chinchow and Tangshan, and you would find it rather difficult...enemy at Chinchow, Shanhaikuan and Tangshan. Another point: you must prepare to...During the Chinchow- Shanhaikuan-Tangshan campaign the first big campaign , if...
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journal articles on: Tangshan  - 29 results

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The Quest for Family Stability
Journal article by Xiaojian Zhao; Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2004
...her husband." (81) MODEL WAR BRIDES AND TANGSHAN TAITAI In addition to helping guide women toward...the women from rural China, commonly known as tangshan nu (Chinese girls) or as tangshan po (old Chinese women). Brought up according...
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Personnel Discipline and Industrial Relations on the Railways of Republican China
Journal article by Stephen L. Morgan; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 47, 2001
Subjects: China--History, Labor relations--History, Management--Analysis, Railroads--Officials and employees
...Wusong Works near Shanghai and the BLR Tangshan Works, though not without occasional...locomotive departments.(31) At the Tangshan Works in the 1920s the works chief...festivals and National Day.(35) At the Tangshan Works the week ended early afternoon...
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Impact and Significance of State-owned Enterprise Restructuring in China
Journal article by Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, Yang Yao; The China Journal, 2006
Subjects: Budgets, Business models, Cities, Economics, Investments, Joint ventures, Privatization, Profits, Reforms, Shares, Stock exchanges, Studies, Workers
...from north to south: Harbin, Fushun, Tangshan, Lanzhou, Weifang, Xining, Zhenjiang...a loss. Firms in two other cities, Tangshan and Zhenjiang, also had negative average...For example, several large SOEs in Tangshan city have been purchased by private coal...
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Personality Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Orphaned Survivors of the Sichuan Earthquake
Journal article by Xingli Zhang, Mingxin Liu, Mingjing Zhu, Jiannong Shi, Li Cheng; Social Behavior and Personality, Vol. 38, 2010
...disasters to hit China since a great earthquake happened in Tangshan in 1976. The earthquake devastated Sichuan, causing overwhelming...Chinese researchers explored die long-term effects of me 1976 Tangshan earthquake on the mental health of earthquake orphans, concluding...
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Shadow Theaters of the World
Journal article by Fan Pen Chen; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 62, 2003
Subjects: Shadow shows--International aspects, Shadow shows--Origin
...99. ZHANG Boyuan TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII 1995 Youyan qipa--Tangshan piying shulue TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII A Wonder of Youyan--a Short Discussion of Tangshan Shadows. In Zhongguo minjian meishu quanji 12: youyibian--muou...
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magazine articles on: Tangshan  - 32 results

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Earthshaking Events
Magazine article by Jian Lin; Oceanus, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Earthquakes, Oceans, Research, Seismology
...Seventeen months later, the people of Tangshan, a city 280 miles southwest of Haicheng...percent of the houses and buildings in Tangshan collapsed. A total of 242,769 people...official tally. Bamboo and body bags The Tangshan earthquake occurred during a political...
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Worlds Apart, but United by the Oceans
Magazine article by Lonny Lippsett; Oceanus, Vol. 45, April 2006
Subjects: Earthquakes, Geophysics, Jian Lin, Oceanography, Scientists
...1976, an earthquake near the city of Tangshan killed more than 242,000 people and...oceanography. What do you remember about the Tangshan earthquake? A series of small tremors...1976, a magnitude-7.8 quake struck Tangshan, a city 280 miles southwest of Haicheng...
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Lessons from a Disaster
Magazine article by Mark Rowe; Geographical, Vol. 82, September 2010
Subjects: Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--United Kingdom, Haiti Earthquake, 2010--Casualties, Haiti--Environmental aspects, Post-disaster reconstruction--Evaluation
...the better. But the Chinese city of Tangshan, 150 kilometres east of Beijing, utterly...face Haiti and Port-au-Prince. The Tangshan earthquake struck at 3.42am, the fault...abandon and relocate the city. Instead, Tangshan was rebuilt, incorporating increased...
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Shock Tactics
Magazine article by Ziauddin Sardar; New Statesman, Vol. 128, September 20, 1999
Subjects: Earthquakes--Turkey, Seismological research--Research, Turkey--Natural disasters
...devastating earthquake in the Chinese city of Tangshan. One morning the ground heaved up by...at Haicheng a year earlier. But the Tangshan catastrophe was taken as proof of its...county by timely evacuation, but those in Tangshan did not. And after the catastrophe...
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The China 100: The Largest Companies in China Got Even Bigger Last Year, Thanks to a Round of Stock Offerings and a Surging Economy
Magazine article; Business Asia, Vol. 12, September 2004
Subjects: China--Economic aspects, Economic conditions--Forecasts and trends, Paper industry--Economic aspects, Paper industry--Industry sales and revenue, Petroleum industry--Economic aspects, Steel industry--Economic aspects
...China Holdings $1,714.1 <br/ 35 36 Tangshan Iron Steel $1,711.6 <br/ 36 22...China Holdings $7.1 $287.8 <br/ Tangshan Iron Steel $106.9 $1,237.7...Holdings Wholesale distribution <br/ Tangshan Iron Steel Iron and steel <br/ Sichuan...
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newspaper articles on: Tangshan  - 45 results

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RETRO REPORT-AUGUST, 1976: Chinese in Fear Another Night
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 2, 2007
...shelters as fresh earth tremors rocked Tangshan, only 100 miles away. Women and children...the ambassadors residence. The city of Tangshan was the centre of last Wednesdays quake...know - the Chinese. The fresh shocks in Tangshan are believed to be posing a serious hurdle...
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Chinese Film Shakes Tradition; 'Aftershock' May Be Ticket to U.S. Market
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 8, 2010
Subjects: AMC Entertainment Inc., Motion picture theaters--International economic relations, Movie theaters--International economic relations
...festivals. Aftershock uses two devastating earthquakes - the 1976 Tangshan quake and the 2008 Sichuan quake, which killed about 250...Mrs. Cullingford was in China during the 1976 earthquake in Tangshan and experienced that time in Chinas history firsthand. The...
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Chinese Official Charts Bohol Visit of Sichuan Children
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 21, 2008
Subjects: Chinese foreign relations
...now considered the most damaging earthquake since the 1976 Tangshan disaster that occurred in the northeastern part of China...coast. Followed by a major aftershock 15 hours later, the two Tangshan quakes killed over 240,000 people, although some estimates...
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Haiti Needs to Pray; Haiti Earthquake Agony in the Rubble
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 14, 2010
...released." In 1751, a quake measuring 7.3 struck at the same fault. 10 WORST QUAKES Shaanxi, China, 1556 - 830,000 dead Tangshan, China, 1976 - 255,000 dead Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004 - 230,210 dead/missing Aleppo, Syria, 1138 - 230,000 Kansu...
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WORLD BEATER; Pilgrim's Adventure Is a Sure-Fire Hit
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 31, 2010
...Best Film In A Foreign Language at the Oscars. Aftershock chronicles the true story of the devastation wrought in the town of Tangshan by a massive earthquake which killed 200,000 people. DVD pounds 19.99. MISFITS - SERIES TWO *** 18 SEVEN episodes of...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tangshan  - 2 results

 
 
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Tangshan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANGSHAN tang-shan, city (1994 est. pop. 1,110,200), NE Hebei prov., China. A coal-mining center in the Kailan basin, Tangshan is also a major industrial hub with iron- and steelworks. It was completely...
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Hebei
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unindented coast line is Qinhuangdao . Other important cities are Tangshan and Baoding . Hebei is mountainous in the north and the west...textile) is concentrated in and around Beijing, Tianjin, and Tangshan. Many light manufactures, such as ceramics, paper, and...


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