T'ien-men
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High School
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Alternative form of Tianmen.
“In 1760-61 he was master of the local academy in Ying-ch’eng; in 1764 he had a similar position in nearby T’ien-men.”
“Yesterday a barbarian soldier reported General Hsiao T'ien-tso was at Nine Dragons Flying Tiger Valley and had fought a battle at T'ien-men.”
“His literary corpus reflects a rural setting, perhaps a modest compound near Ching-ling (modern Tʻien-men County), located in Hupei just north of the watersmeet of the Han and Yangtze rivers.”
From Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén), Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻien¹-mên².
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