Szechuan
English
Alternative forms
- Szechwan
Etymology
From the Chinese postal romanization of Nanjing court dialect Mandarin 四川.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/, /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/, /ʃɛʃ.wɑn/
Proper noun
Szechuan
- Alternative form of Sichuan
- 1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist In Western China, With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom, volume I, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 104:
- THE plain of Chengtu is the only large expanse of level ground in the great province of Szechuan; it is also one of the richest, most fertile, and thickly populated areas in the whole of China.
- [1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, OCLC 877423366, page 116:
- There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan.]
- 1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, page 476:
- Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.
- 1973, Rewi Alley, Travels in China, 1966-71 (中国见闻), Peking: New World Press, OCLC 462299220, page 25:
- The highway is one that was built to enable the Chiang Kai-shek government to evacuate to Chungking in the War of Resistance days, and Huayuan, our objective, is a county town in the middle of a high mountain plateau, only 25 kilometres from the Szechuan border.
- 1980, Ch'ien Tuan-sheng, Harold C. Hinton, editor, How the People's Government Works, 1952 (The People's Republic of China 1949-1979), volume 1, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
- In far-off southern Szechuan province last summer, while helping the peasants to effect the land reform, I saw group after group of young peasants, men and women, volunteer to help the aggressors away from our border and help neighboring Korea.
- 1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, page 2:
- Szechuan Province in southeastern China is well endowed with natural resources, fine landscapes and a long rich history. In early times, the several states which made Szechuan their home produced a line of famous generals whose lives have become the subject of myth, literary works and operas. Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles.
- 2003 October 5, LaBalme, Corinne, “WHAT'S DOING IN; Paris”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Travel:
- But long before that, Parisians will have had ample chance to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture. From Oct. 14 to Jan. 28, the Hôtel de Ville, […] showcases recent Bronze Age excavations in the Szechuan Province, in western China, including artifacts from the Jinsha site (1200-1000 B.C.) discovered in February 2001.
- 2012, Saul David, editor, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Warfare, Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 283:
- Despite this aerial assistance, the Chinese were again forced to withdraw westward, this time to Chongqing in the mountains of Szechuan.
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Derived terms
- Szechuanese
- Szechuan button
- Szechuan pepper
- szechuanensis
- Szechuan lovage
References
- “Szechuan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Szechuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary