Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chiang¹-pʻu³.
Proper noun
Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
- Alternative form of Qingjiangpu
- 1965, Chu, Samuel C., Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926, Columbia University Press, LCCN 65-10541, OCLC 760522897, OL 14725503M, page 150:
- Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.
- 1970, Cheng, Ying-wan, Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-120316, OCLC 906049572, OL 5700344M, page 65:
- Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.
- 1992, Lu Lan, “Sorrows of a Factory Worker”, in Li Yu-ning, editor, Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 91-11313, OCLC 891192118, page 176:
- I am employed as a female worker at the Prosperity Hosiery Factory, which is at Ch'ing-chiang-p'u [near Shanghai].
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Translations
Qingjiangpu — see Qingjiangpu