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cathay
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cathay \Ca*thay"\, n. China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, poetic name for "China," from Medieval Latin Cataya, from Turkish Khitai, from Uighur Khitai, name of a Tatar dynasty that ruled Beijing 936-1122.
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Wikipedia
Cathay is the Anglicized version of "Catai" and an alternative name for China in English. It originates from the word Khitan , the name of a nomadic people who founded the Liao dynasty which ruled much of Northern China from 907 to 1125, and who later migrated west after they were overthrown by the Jurchens to form the Qara Khitai centered on today's Kyrgyzstan for another century thereafter.
Originally, Catai was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China; the name was also used in Marco Polo's book on his travels in China (he referred to southern China as Manji).
Cathay is a multinational entity occupying a large portion of land in East Asia. It may also refer to:
Places:
- Cathay, California, former name of Catheys Valley, California
- Cathay, North Dakota, United States
- Cathays, a district of Cardiff, the capital of Wales
In media:
- Cathay (poetry collection), a book of poems by Ezra Pound
- Cathay (Warhammer), a fictional nation in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy universe
Other:
- Cathay Bank, a Chinese-American bank
- Cathay de Grande, a nightclub
- Cathay Organisation, one of Singapore's leading leisure and entertainment groups
- Cathay Pacific, the largest airline and flag carrier of Hong Kong
- The Cathay, a mixed-use 17-storey cinema, shopping mall and apartment building
- SS Cathay, a number of ships
Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English, despite a complete lack of knowledge of the Chinese language. The volume's 15 poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right; and, in his bold translations of works from a language he was unfamiliar with, Pound set the stage for a modernist translations.
Usage examples of "cathay".
Venetian traveller, visited far Cathay, following somewhat the itinerary of his predecessor, reaching however nearer to Australia than Marco Polo ever did, for, whereas the latter described the Australasian regions only from hearsay, the Franciscan Monk Odoric actually visited Java and some of the islands of the eastern Archipelago.
After all, it was he who conquered the people of Anga, which gave us the port of Champa, which controls all the traffic down the Ganges to the sea that leads to Cathay.
The imagists, Ezra Pound in particular, were Chinese long before they discovered Cathay in the works of Ernest Fennellosa.
And if he was safe, his ship was safe and then together they might find the Japans, or even the Christian King Prester John and his Golden Empire that legend said lay to the north of Cathay, wherever Cathay was.
Governors of the Four Provinces of Old Cathay, New Cathay, Chingford and Sangley Marches.
Portugal, islands which we assume to have been the Azores, and, west of the same, that is, on the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the province of Mango, near Cathay, and the Empire of the Great Khan, the extremity of which bore the name of Zaitam.
Cathay is relatively underpopulated and many parts of that rich land are empty.
They had been Persians before, not to mention Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and even visitors from behind the Himalayas, the yellow folk of Cathay.
Within the dusty hall, whose dark beams were half eaten away by termites, all the dukes of Cathay had gathered in order that their authority might be renewed by the son of heaven.
I came here on yonder English herring boat, out of Bristol, hoping to learn of lands to the west There has been much comment concerning lands beyond Greenland and speculation that India and Cathay might be reached in that direction.
In some provinces in Cathay, they care so little for chastity that wives take in strangers off the road.
To one side of me, Marco Polo sweeps exultantly through Cathay to Kubla Khan.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado´s western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
On the forty-second day after First Fall, with Thread crossing uninhabited parts of Araby and Cathay and falling harmlessly in the Northern Sea above Delta, missing Dorado's western prong, Admiral Benden and Governor Boll decreed a day of rest and leisure for all.
Obviously, some tribe from Cathay had crossed the Himalayas to sire the Gotama clan.