Tancheng County

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Tancheng County (Chinese: 郯城县; pinyin: Tánchéng Xiàn) is a county of Linyi, Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

Tancheng is located on the southern edge of the province of Shandong, about 90 kilometres (by road) south of Linyi and 400 kilometres south east of Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province.

The population in 2001 was 970,000. The land area of the county is about 1,306.58 square kilometres. It is a developing city in a rural area.

Tancheng in the 17th century is the setting for Jonathan Spence's microhistory, The Death of Woman Wang.[1]

Xu Ling, compiler of the famous poetry anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace, was born in what is now Tancheng County.

References

  1. ↑ Jonathan D. Spence, The Death of Woman Wang (New York: Viking Penguin, 1978).

Coordinates: 34°39′03.60″N 118°13′19.20″E / 34.6510000°N 118.2220000°E / 34.6510000; 118.2220000

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