"T'ai-yüan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 太原 (Tàiyuán), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻai⁴-yüan².",
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          "ref": "1904 March [1904 January 9], J. W. Jamieson, “Notes on the Foreign Trade of Tientsin for the Years 1900-03 by Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Commercial Attaché to H.M.'s Legation at Peking”, in China: Notes on the Foreign Trade of Tientsin during the Years 1900-03, number 3127, London, →OCLC, page 24:",
          "text": "Mr. Carles has alluded to a curious faculty certain small Chinese towns possess of attracting to themselves special trades, in face of the fact that there is no ostensible reason why a particular trade should go to that particular place. A very good illustration hereof is furnished by Chiao ch’eng, a name constantly recurring in connection with the skin trade. It is a small district city south of T’ai-yüan, the capital of Shanhsi, which in the course of the last few years has become a busy commercial centre, to the great perturbation of a recently arrived magistrate, who has discovered that increased trade means increased cost of living and is therefore bad for the people.",
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          "ref": "1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9., T. Fisher Unwin, page 78:",
          "text": "Part of the country between Fên-chou and T'ai-yüan is famous as being the finest grape-producing district in North China, and we were able to indulge in the luscious fruit at a halfpenny per pound!",
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          "ref": "1979, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China, volume 3, Cambridge University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 156:",
          "text": "T'ai-yüan was an area traditionally associated with the legendary sage ruler Yao, also known as 'T'ang Yao' (Yao of T'ang) because he had once resided there at a place called T'ang.",
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          "ref": "2007, Nigel Cawthorne, The Daughter of Heaven, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:",
          "text": "In the Duke of T'ang he recognized a true leader and sealed the alliance by inviting him to his home in T'ai-yüan when Li Yüan was on his way to Long-men to quash the rebellion there.",
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