Ch'ien-t'ang

Ch‘ien-t‘ang English Etymology From en cmn 錢塘 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chʻien²-tʻang². Proper noun 1 1 en Qiantang. en 1898 T. Watters The Eighteen Lohan of Chinese Buddhist Temples. https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas3018roya/ w:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 1356-1863 470145924 330 https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas3018roya/page/n353/ About the year 880 an artist named Kuan Hsiu (zh 貫休) made pictures of the Sixteen Lohan, which were given to a Buddhist monastery near Ch‘ien-t‘ang in the province of Chekiang. en 1903 Shiichi Tajima Masterpieces Selected from the Kôrin School: with Biographical Sketches of the Artists of the School, and some Critical Descriptions https://archive.org/details/gri_33125001228481/ Tokyo Shimbi Shoin I 5660289 Lin Ho-ching, surnamed Pu, a man who lived during the Sung dynasty of China, was born at Ch‘ien-t‘ang of Hang-chau in Ché-kiang province. en 1953 China's Management of the American Barbarians: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841-1861, with Documents https://archive.org/details/chinasmanagement0000unse/ New York w:Octagon Books 1972 0-374-97686-4 70-38817 611842660 712 https://archive.org/details/chinasmanagement0000unse/page/712/ CHIN Ying-lin zh 金應麟, native of Ch‘ien-t‘ang, Chekiang, was a chin-shih of the Tao-kuang period. en 1980 Richard John Lynn Kuan Yün-Shih https://archive.org/details/kuanyunshih00lynn/ w:Twayne Publishers 0-8057-6404-6 79-21767 474970968 4417670M 38 https://archive.org/details/kuanyunshih00lynn/page/38/ It is not certain exactly when he arrived, though the statement in Teng’s preface to his collected works that “after we had been parted for a year, he came to visit Ch’ien-t’ang and came by to see me” suggests that Kuan was there by early spring, if we count a year from the time he must have left office (February 1317). en 1981 Lillian M. Li Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvYavMVxBTUC w:Harvard University Press 0-674-11962-2 81-2409 878668994 135 https://books.google.com/books?id=UvYavMVxBTUC&pg=PA135 Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch’ien-t’ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang. en 2011 Circulation and Waves Oceans and Oceanography The Living Earth https://archive.org/details/oceansoceanograp0000unse/ 1st 978-1-61530-334-2 2010032151 651488477 138 https://archive.org/details/oceansoceanograp0000unse/page/138/ There is a well- known bore on the Severn, in England, and another forms on the Petitcodiac River, \khich empties into the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. The classic example is the bore on the Qiantang (Ch’ien-t’ang) described by Commander W. Usborne Moore of the British navy in 1888 and 1892. He reported heights of 2.5 to 3.5 metres (8.2 to 11.5 feet).