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Taotai

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(n.) In China, an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; - called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Taotai'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/taotai.html. 1828.
 
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