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In the city of Tangshan, in the country’s northeast, anyone buying a home had to hold the property for at least three and a half years.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

So far, the authorities said they had detained eight civil servants, including the head of one district police station in Tangshan, on suspicion of offering protection to the defendants and accepting bribes.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2022

Authorities in Tangshan launched a public security campaign and pledged to crack down on crime, with police stationed throughout the city and at restaurants.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

It was a busy Friday night at a barbecue restaurant in the Chinese city of Tangshan.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022

Tangshan is a large city, apparently of recent growth on the railroad in a country where isolated conical hills rise one hundred or two hundred feet out of the flat, plains.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)