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    Who was General Tso?

    Question #76250. Asked by amp2006. (Feb 22 07 6:58 PM)


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    		Zuǒ Zōngtáng (November 10, 1812-September 5, 1885), spelled Tso Tsung-t'ang in Wade-Giles and known simply as General Tso or General Tsuo to Westerners, was a gifted Chinese military leader born in Wenjialong, north of Changsha in Hunan province, during the waning of the Qing Dynasty. He served with brilliant distinction during China's most important (and the world's largest) civil war, the 14-year-long Taiping Rebellion, in which at least 30 million people lost their lives. The Tso in General Tso is sometimes misspelled "Cho" in English, probably due to influence from Cantonese. The correct pronunciation of the name in Mandarin is [tsuɔ tsʊŋtʰɑŋ].

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zu%C7%92_Z%C5%8Dngt%C3%A1ng

    Feb 22 07, 7:00 PM

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