Ch'ien-chiang
English
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Map including CH'IEN-CHIANG (TSIENKIANG) 潛江 (AMS, 1953) →OCLC
Etymology
From Mandarin 潛江/潜江 (Qiánjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-chiang¹.
Proper noun
Ch'ien-chiang
- Alternative form of Qianjiang
- 1943, Arthur W. Hummel Sr., Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, Government Printing Office, OCLC 174338734, page 188:
- Not permitted to remain in the Academy, he was, after three years (1700) made district magistrate of Chʻien-chiang, Hupeh.
- 1980, Tsʻao Yü, Christopher C. Rand, Joseph S. M. Lau, transl., The Wilderness (Yüan-yeh) 原野, →ISBN, LCCN 78-65981, OCLC 702708302, page viii:
- As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Tsʻao Yü's life. Though his ancestral home was Chʻien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
- 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, LCCN 2002073343, OCLC 248866825, page 183:
- As for the five in my family, my son and daughter-in-law had gone to Chʻien-chiang, also in Hupei, to transplant seedlings and grow vegetables.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ien-chiang.
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Translations
Qianjiang — see Qianjiang