Qingdao 青島

Qīngdǎo 青島 Other names include: Jiāo'ào 胶澳 Qíndǎo 琴島

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Northern China Region

Geography Portal

Qīngdǎo 青島 is the largest city in Shāndōng 山東 Province, and sits on the southern coast of the Shāndōng Peninsula.

Important Buddhist Sites

• Zhànshān Temple 湛山寺 is located in in Qīngdǎo 青島
  • The Zhànshān Temple Buddhist Seminary 湛山寺佛學院 ran here from 1934 to 1946.
• Qīngdǎo Buddhist Association 青島佛學會
  • Founded by Zhōu Shūjiā 周叔迦

Other Notes

• It was the headquarters of a German Concession in the province from 1898 until 1914.
• Kāng Yǒuwéi 康有為 was poisoned here in 1927
• The Buddhist scholar Zhōu Shūjiā 周叔迦 lived in the city in the late 1920s
• Tánxū 倓虛 lived here from the late 1930s into the mid 1940s