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Qingchuan
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Qīngchuān
English
Qingchuan County
Pronunciation
chǐngʹchwänʹen 1952 Tsingchwan or Ch’ing-ch’uan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1953 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1953/ 1
en Qing chuan
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 青川.
Alternative forms
en Chingchuan Wade-Giles
Proper noun
en Q1199433en county prefecture-level city/Guangyuan p/Sichuan c/China.
en May 26, 2008 Some areas in China to relax one-child policy for quake victims w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20200718043333/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/world/asia/26iht-child.3.13218886.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue.
en 27 May 2013 Cynthia Chan Giving teachers in disaster zones spiritual training https://web.archive.org/web/20130610100355/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1245174/giving-teachers-disaster-zones-spiritual-training w:South China Morning Post Family & Relationships Since a magnitude eight earthquake struck Qingchuan county, Sichuan, five years ago, killing more than 80,000, a Hong Kong education expert has been working on a reconstruction of a different kind.
en 2017 Christian P. Sorace The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake https://archive.org/details/shakenauthorityc0000sora/ w:Cornell University Press 978-1-5017-0753-7 2016048273 961213984 124 https://archive.org/details/shakenauthorityc0000sora/page/124/ Qingchuan is one of Sichuan’s poorest counties. In 2010 the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council published a report on Qingchuan’s pre- and post-earthquake economic situation. “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward. Before the earthquake, poverty was already substantially worse [in Qingchuan] than in other national poverty alleviation project areas.”
en SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 Ben Blanchard Quake rattles southwestern China causing minor damage Simon Cameron-Moore; Richard Pullin https://web.archive.org/web/20230807225217/https://www.reuters.com/article/china-quake-idINKCN1C505P w:Reuters World News The Sichuan government said several rail services had been suspended for safety checks, but that it had not received any reports of power being cut off in any parts of the province.It also showed pictures from Qingchuan county, the quake’s epicentre, with everything looking as normal and with no damage.
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 青川
Further reading
Qingchuan, Chingchuan, Ch'ing-ch'uan
en 1998 Qingchuan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2546 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2546/ 3
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 清川江.
Proper noun
en Chongchon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
en 4 April 1989 1987 August Dezhi Yang Regulations Leo Kanner Associates For Peace Weile Heping https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA207167/ w:Foreign Technology Division 227738865 113 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA207167/page/n133/ That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the ":zh:楊連第 Yang Liandi Company".
en 2006 2003 Jae-eun Kang Confucianism in the Three Kingdoms Period Suzanne Lee The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism https://books.google.com/books?id=iB8R0oEH3kEC 1-931907-30-7 2005019692 60931394 40 https://books.google.com/books?id=iB8R0oEH3kEC&pg=PA40 Goguryeo's General Euljimundeok allowed the Sui army to approach Pyeong'yang, but launched a protracted war of defending the castle. The Sui army, suffering from exhaustion and shortage of supplies, finally retreated. The retreating Sui army suffered a crushing defeat at Sashui (zh 薩水, old name of Qingchuan River, zh 淸川江), where it was surrounded and attached; only 2,700 Sui soldiers escaped.
en 2008 September Yaohui [zh 董耀会] Dong To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall zh 步入长城的历史脉络 zh:王静<t:Wang Jing> Throughout the Great Wall zh 话说长城 https://archive.org/details/huashuochangchen0000dong/ zh:江苏科学技术出版社<t:Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House> 978-7-5345-6079-8 427442808 48 https://archive.org/details/huashuochangchen0000dong/page/48/ The Great Wall of North Zhao started in the west from the western frontier of Shanggu County, i.e., the area from the north of Huailai County of today’s Hebei Province, to Dushikou and Luanheyuan. It ended in the east in the eastern frontier of Liaodong Town, i.e., the Qingchuan River drainage area of today’s DPRK.
en 2017 Hongzhou Zhang; Mingjiang Li China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=8QVDDwAAQBAJ 135166980X 1017853303 Since then, Korea started to build castles and moats in the Jurchen community, pushing the frontiers to the upper and middle stretches of the Qingchuan River (Ch'ongch'ongang) and the lower stretches of the Yalu River.
en
Translations
river
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 清川江
References
en 2-syllable words