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Taiping

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Taiping [ˈtaɪˈpɪŋ]
n
(Historical Terms) History a person who supported or took part in the movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 (Taiping rebellion), which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
[from Chinese, from tai great + ping peace]


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An official at the National Fire Agency said a female student in Taiping city, central Taiwan, suffered minor injuries to her head when she was hit by debris falling from the ceiling of her classroom.
Mike Dacre, 53, was killed when the plane he was test flying went down during take-off from an airstrip in Taiping.
On a plot half the size of a football field surrounded by jungle in Malaysia's northern Perak state, 866 polished tombstones stand in serried ranks in an eternal parade at the Taiping War Cemetery.
 
 
 
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