I was under the impression that during Qing, China was often referred to as Tangshan, and during the colonial period, people said 'zhina'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times Channels Me] Reference

China's worst earthquake in many centuries occurred in Tangshan.    From Wordnik.com.  [1972, Feb. 21-27] Reference

Soon this will have been bigger than the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [China: 7.8 scale earthquake felt across most of China] Reference

And the deadliest, a magnitude 7.5 quake hit Tangshan, China, in July 1976.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004] Reference

The last time a comparable calamity hit China was the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Shook Up] Reference

There had been an earthquake at a coal-mining city near Peking called Tangshan.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

In 1976, 255,000 people died when an earthquake measuring 7.5 hit Tangshan, China.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference

Tangshan Iron's shares dropped by the 10% daily limit to 4.10 yuan (60 U.S. cents).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Steelmakers Plan Merger] Reference

I was in Tangshan, near Beijing, the day before the tragic, recent Sichuan earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Suffer Less in Today's China Than in Times Past] Reference

China's earthquake design code was not enforced until 1978, following the Tangshan earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Destruction] Reference

Nobody thought about donating anything to the victims in Tangshan, because everybody was poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sichuan Quake Shows Changing China] Reference

What we can be sure of is that Tangshan rates as no more than third in the cataclysmic league.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santorini]

Warsaw, Poland, and Tangshan, China, were rebuilt by totalitarian regimes, each for its own reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

All this is in sharp contrast to what happened in 1976, when the Tangshan earthquake left 240,000 dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unnecessary Tragedy] Reference

Above, steel H-beams are cut at the China Oriental Group steel plant in Tangshan, Hebei province, China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharing the Pain of Higher Input Costs] Reference

When China's last mega-earthquake hit, in Tangshan in 1976, organized philanthropy was virtually nonexistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Open Hearts] Reference

Northern China's biggest earthquake in recent years happened in Tangshan city, more than 90 miles from Beijing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CCTV Tower Mirrors Beijing's Rising Ambitions] Reference

The last earthquake of this magnitude was in 1976, when 240,000 died outside Beijing after a quake in Tangshan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bodies Line Streets of Dujiangyan, China as Quake Death Toll Tops 12,000] Reference

As recent as 1976 the Tangshan quake which took from 1/4 to 3/4 million lives were regarded as omen for Mao's dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's quake belts] Reference

Ford definitely has a point: the articles about the Tangshan case are all quoting one another, a common enough Chinese practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meta-Rabbit Holes in Tangshan's Armored Car Story] Reference

Survivors of the 1976 Tangshan quake, which killed some 255,000 people, were left to cope on their own with posttraumatic stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healing Sichuan’s Psyche] Reference

The true extent of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 was hidden from the nation and the world, despite the loss of 250,000 lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Earthquake] Reference

After their merger, Tangshan Iron will become the sole operating company of Hebei Iron's major steel assets and will change its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Steelmakers Plan Merger] Reference

Yang Shukuan was shaking down mining companies, hiring assassins and terrorizing the population of Tangshan, Hebei with an armored car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meta-Rabbit Holes in Tangshan's Armored Car Story] Reference

Soon after Zhou Enlai's death, there was a massive earthquake in the coal-mining city of Tangshan, about a hundred miles east of Beijing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

A resolutely mainstream, rather tepid drama, it politely uses the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan as a backdrop for a family saga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 6: Hello, Lapland!] Reference

The greatest loss of life because of an earthquake this century occurred in Tangshan, China in 1976 when an estimated 250,000 people died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthquake] Reference

Associated Press The quake was China's deadliest since 1976, when 240,000 people were killed in the city of Tangshan, near Beijing in 1976.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Rescue Efforts] Reference

After the Tangshan, China did spend a lot of money to retrofit brick buildings, which suffered the most severe damage during that earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Destruction] Reference

Survivors of the 1976 Tangshan quake, which killed at least 255,000 people, were left to cope on their own with posttraumatic stress disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Culture Rethinks Psychology] Reference

They did not simply shutter factories in Tangshan, a major steel - and cement-producing center, but replaced them with cleaner-burning plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [China making inroads on emissions] Reference

He was shuttled from family to family for several years until moving in with an illiterate coal miner, with whom he developed a close bond, in his hometown of Tangshan.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Tiananmen Square to Possible Buffett Successor] Reference

Sensitive death or casualty figures -- whether from the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown or the current HIV/AIDS crisis -- are inevitably low-ball numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why China Cooks The Books] Reference

"Aftershock" -- a tale based on the lives of survivors of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The company has worked with local government in Tangshan in Hebei province to build several pilot stations, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference