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English
Noun
taotai (countable and uncountable, plural taotai or taotais)
- Alternative form of daotai
1905 June 16, “The Proposed Municipal Read to the Hills.”, in North-China Herald, volume LXXV, number 1975, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 587, column 2:The result has been that in response to a petition from the people of Chingpu, forwarded by the Shanghai Taotai, in whose jurisdiction the district lies, Viceroy Chou Fu, of Nanking, has informed the Waiwupu as to how matters are, with the request that, as Chingpu is not a Treaty port, nor a dependency of Shanghai district, the Waiwupu should communicate with the British and American Ministers in Peking and ask them to stop all further encroachments into Chingpu district.