Neijiang
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Nei-chiang
- (postal romanization) Neikiang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 內江／内江 (Nèijiāng).
Proper noun
Neijiang
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 1981, Wu, Yuzhang, Recollections of the Revolution of 1911: A Great Democratic Revolution of China, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, published 2001, →ISBN, OCLC 272270300, pages 25-26:
- Duan Fang took with him a contingent of the new army of Hubei, but they had established connections with members of the Revolutionary League at Wanxian and Neijiang, staged an uprising at Zizhou and killed Duan Fang. Following this, members of the Revolutionary League staged an uprising at Neijiang and other counties. By this time a part of the new army of Sichuan had also launched an uprising in the vicinity of Chengdu and had begun to march to Chongqing.
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Translations
prefecture-level city in China
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References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 71-178868, OCLC 482667885, pages 345, 359: “Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, […] Neikiang (Nei-chiang, Neijiang)”