En-shih
See also: Enshih
English
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Map including En-shih (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 恩施 (Ên¹-shih¹).
Proper noun
En-shih
- Alternative form of Enshi
- 1950, Wesley Frank Craven, James Lea Cate, editors, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume IV, published 1983, OCLC 769332570, page 543:
- Night bombing of CACW airfields were frequent, but En-shih was so located that the 28th Squadron there was generally able to intercept bombers heading for the CACW bases during daylight hours.
- 1952, Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session on the Institute of Pacific Relations, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 3364474, page 2474:
- Later CH'EN Ch'eng obtained permission for YEH to reside with him in En-shih, Hupeh on the personal responsibility of CH'EN; but soon after YEH and his family arrived CH'EN Ch'eng's new command in western Yunnan made it impossible for CH'EN himself to reside at En-shih.
- 1988 [1981], Hualing Nieh Engle, Jane Parish Yang, Linda Lappin, transl., Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, LCCN 87-47881, OCLC 17619611, page 16:
- Lao-shih and I ran away together from En-shih to Pa-tung. I am sixteen and she is eighteen. We thought we could get a ship out of Pa-tung right away and be in Chungking in a flash. When we get to Chungking, the war capital, we'll be all right, or at least that's what Lao-shih says.
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Translations
Enshi — see Enshi