Tsingkiangpu
English
Etymology
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ).
Proper noun
Tsingkiangpu
- Alternative form of Qingjiangpu
- 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, LCCN 71-178825, OCLC 916996782, page 44:
- On the return, he left the canal eighty-five miles below Tsingkiangpu, and to the astonishment and alarm of country folk, he roared and bumped home along the Imperial Highway, narrow and rough, easily beating the record for a journey between Shanghai and Tsingkiangpu.
- 2006, Stephen Fortosis, Boxers to Bandits, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, →ISBN, OCLC 1128827547, page 25:
- The upper four-fifths of the Jiangsu Province was almost untouched by the Gospel with less than 100 Chinese believers among, perhaps, 30 million people. Eventually the Grahams moved to Tsingkiangpu, a town in northeastern Jiangsu with a population of approximately 130,000 (in modern China the city of Tsingkiangpu is renamed Huaiyin).
- 2010, Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones, Profile Books, →ISBN, OCLC 1001576564, page 22:
- In the end an opening was found for him as stand-in for a colleague on furlough in Zhenjiang, the city he had left a decade earlier to open up Tsingkiangpu and its hinterland.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsingkiangpu.
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