Li-ch'uan
English
Map including Li-ch'uan (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 利川 (Lìchuān) Wade-Giles romanization: Li⁴-chʻuan¹.
Proper noun
Li-ch'uan
- Alternative form of Lichuan
- 1912 [November 14, 1911], W. H. Wilkinson, “Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China, Harrison and Sons, OCLC 17465577, page 51:
- Recent letters show that Wushan and K'uei-fu, towns on the river below Wan Hsien, were still in the hands of the existing Government on the 8th instant, though Li-ch'uan, west of Shihnan-fu, in the extreme corner of Hupeh, was reported to be in the hands of the revolutionaries.
- 1976, West, Philip, Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 76-2564, OCLC 185411748, OL 21603850M, page 167:
- Hsü Pao-ch'ien was dismayed by the bickering and lack of commitment of the Christian students working with rural reconstruction in Li-ch'uan.
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Translations
Lichuan — see Lichuan