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| Processed by: | richwarm (2019-10-23 23:02:23 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 65118 - submitted by 'sl89' >> * Traditional character is 臺, not 台. * Historically it as been rendered as taot(')tai, but now will more likely appear as daotai as pinyin is replacing Wade-Giles even in historical terms that have already entered English. * 道台 has historically been translated as "taotai" so that's a wrong word to use in the definition, but defining 道台 in a one-word gloss "taotai" isn't very useful. * By separating "taotai" and the explanation of what a taotai is, it becomes unclear whether these two glosses refer to the same sense or not. 【Wenlin】 n. 〈hist.〉 magistrate of a dào 【Pleco】 NOUN ARCHAIC intendant of a circuit (an administrative division) 【LAC】 明、清地方各道主官的统称。明初布政司、按察司因辖区大而事繁，遂由布政司的左右参政、参议分理钱谷，称为「分守道」；按察司的副使、佥事分理刑名，称为「分巡道」。清乾隆时裁参政、参议、副使、佥事等职，专称分守、分巡二道长官为道台，多兼兵备衔，辖府、州、县，乃成为省以下，府、州以上的高级行政长官。此外又设督粮、盐法诸道。清末在各省亦设有巡警、劝业等道。也作「道员」 A circuit (Chinese: 道; pinyin: dào or Chinese: 路; pinyin: lù) was a historical political division of China and is a historical and modern administrative unit in Japan. The primary level of administrative division of Korea under the Joseon and in modern North and South Korea employs the same Chinese character as the Chinese and Japanese divisions but, because of its relatively greater importance, is usually translated as province instead. [...] Under the Qing, they were overseen by a circuit intendant or tao-tai (Chinese: 道臺; pinyin: dàotái). The circuit intendant of Shanghai was particularly influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division) The circuit intendant or daotai of Shanghai, also formerly romanized as taotai or tao tai, was an imperial Chinese official who oversaw the circuit of Shanghai, then part of Jiangsu Province, in the Qing Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_intendant_of_Shanghai (historical) Synonym of circuit intendant: a local governor of late imperial China. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daotai Alternative form of daotai https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tao_tai Circuit intendants (daoyuan 道員, daotai 道臺 or guancha 觀察) were supervisors of special administration zones directly subordinated to central government agencies. The territory of their jurisdiction was the circuit (lu 路 or dao 道), which normally included several districts, sometimes overlapping provincial boundaries. Because they organized financial and economical matters, also in the treaty ports, Western merchants had often business with circuit intendants. In Western sources they are called taotai or tao-t‘ai. http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Terms/daotai.html Examples of "daotai" in modern English-language published sources: To the vice consul's complaint, the daotai responded in two ways. First, he informed the vice consul that the barrier was acting in accordance with new regulations issued by Zeng Guofan, GovernorGeneral of Liangjiang. (Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land and Power, Routledge, 2016) After the salt merchants discovered the plan to violate the state monopoly, they reported to the daotai (circuit intendant) that a band of "lawbreaking evil people" was pilfering salt. (Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, University of California Press, 2008) In the early 1870s the Shanghai daotai was Shen Bingcheng, followed by Feng Junguang; the American consul-general was George F. Seward, nephew of President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state. (Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81; Hong Kong University Press; 2011) As far back as 1855 obedience to the land regulations had been enjoined by proclamation of the Daotai upon all Chinese resorting to the settlement. (Order and Discipline in China: The Shanghai Mixed Court 1911-1927, University of Washington Press, 2017) “阿呀呀，你放了道台了，还说不阔？ "Come off it. I know you're a big official--a Daotai, they say. (Lyell) “Oh, come now, you have been made the intendant of a circuit, and do you still say you're not rich? (Yangs) 'What are you talking about? You work for the government - (Lovell) 鲁迅《故乡》 ※ 道 * "Circuit" seems like the universal English translation of 道 in this sense. * Dao, as an administrative division has had different uses, so maybe it would be preferable not to compare it to Tang provinces, as that comparison may not be appropriate for all its history. |
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- 道台 道台 [dao4 tai2] /taotai/ancient official title/ + 道臺 道台 [dao4 tai2] /(Ming and Qing dynasties) daotai (title for an official responsible for supervising a circuit 道|道[dao4]), aka taotai and circuit intendant/ - 道 道 [dao4] /road/path/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process/(old) administrative division (similar to province in Tang times)/ + 道 道 [dao4] /road/path/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process/(old) circuit (administrative division)/ |