Tianjing

• T'ien-ching (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天京 (Tiānjīng).

• enPR: tyĕn′jĭng′^[1]
• Hyphenation: Tian‧jing

Tianjing

1. (historical) Synonym of Nanjing.
   • [1975, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:

     On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.]

   • 1980 July, Zhang Haipeng, “An English Fighter in a Chinese Peasant War”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIX, number 7, Peking, →OCLC, page 30, column 3:

     Toward the end of 1860, as told in his book, Lindley, together with his Portuguese fiancée Marie, a British friend he called “L.”, and a Greek friend B. Philip, joined the Taiping Army at Tianjing (Nanjing) — the capital of the Taiping Kingdom.

   • 1986, Madge Huntington, “The Qing Dynasty and the Continued Western Presence, 1644–1911”, in A Traveler's Guide to Chinese History‎^[2], 1st edition (Travel/History), New York: Henry Holt and Company, published 1987, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:

     By 1851 the Taiping army had captured large areas in the southern half of the empire, and two years later it took Nanjing, which was renamed Tianjing [T'ien-ching] ("Heavenly Capital").

   • 2011, Liel Leibovitz, Matthew Miller, “The Qing”, in Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization (History), New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:

     After a fierce battle, Hong and his men established control over the city of Nanjing, which they promptly renamed Tianjing, or Heavenly Capital.