"Tsingtao" meaning in English

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          "text": "But the most serious situation developed out of Japanese participation in the World War. In the first place, the Japanese advance on Tsingtao put China as a neutral power in an anomalous position.",
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          "ref": "1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22:",
          "text": "Wagner was a German agricultural economist who in 1911 went to Tsingtao to teach in a German-Chinese Middle School. He later worked at the Litsun Agricultural Experimental Station in Shantung where he continued his studies of agriculture both past and present.",
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          "ref": "1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:",
          "text": "Into Nelson Bell's earphones squawked a message from the consul at Tsingtao and then from the American minister himself, \"insisting that we leave.\" The decisive factor, however, was a frank acceptance that to stay might increase the difficulties of Chinese Christians when the victorious revolutionary army poured into North Kiangsu.",
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          "text": "1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.",
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