Definition of "Tsingtao"

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.

1928, Harold M. Vinacke, A History of the Far East in Modern Times‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 224

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.

1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 22

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.

1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China‎, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, page 98

1927, September 20. The Japanese steamship Gentoku Maru capsized in Tsingtao (Ch'ing-tao) Bay, China, killing 278.

1996, David Ritche, Shipwrecks: An Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Disasters at Sea‎, Facts On File, page 269