Paoting

/ ˈpaʊˈtɪŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Baoding

Example Sentences

At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt.

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At China's Paoting Military Academy in 1906, he got high marks, though he was the only student who did not wear a queue; in those days queuelessness was a sign of dangerous, republican thoughts.

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He attended the Paoting Military Academy, met Chiang Kai-shek in the early '203 and has been a trusted lieutenant and devoted friend ever since.

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Last week they were moving on Paoting, 90 miles from Peiping.

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For many weeks their strategy in the north had been deliberately to sacrifice the provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed.

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