"Nan-t'ung" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南通 (Nántōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻung¹.",
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          "ref": "1965, Samuel C. Chu, Reformer in Mondern China Chang Chien, 1853-1926, Columbia University Press, page 31:",
          "text": "Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized.",
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          "text": "In \"Notes of Ling-hsiao and I-shih,\" Kuo-wen chou-pao, chüan 9, No. 28, July 18, 1932, p. 1, Chang Ch'ien, native of Nan-t'ung, Kiangsu, who later founded the big cotton mills, is described as beginning to study poem and eight-legged essay writing at twelve, becoming sheng-yüan at the early age of sixteen.",
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          "ref": "1987, William Overgard, Shanghai Tango, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157:",
          "text": "Through the crowd, Max saw an object with tall spoked wheels, low wooden carriage, and the projection of a heavy iron barrel. They stopped in front of it, and he bent down to read the brass manufacturer's plate:\nMAXIM-NORDENFELT M. 1897\nIt was a popular design originally sold to the Transvaal government and used by the Boers during the 1899-1902 South African War. In the interim it had probably changed hands a dozen times before being stolen from the old Republican Army warehouse at Nan-t'ung in 1928 by \"Captain Hook.\"",
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          "text": "Engineer Sung, who had once been an instructor at the Nan-t'ung Textile Institute, was ordered to accompany Liu Shao-ch'iao to Nan-t'ung.",
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