Qingpu

English Qingpu District Alternative forms obsolete en Ching-pu, en Tsingpu Etymology The atonal en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 青浦 Qīngpǔ Verdant Bank, a 1542 combination of the name of zh 青龍 Qīnglóng, the principal local town at the time, and zh 浦 pǔ riverbank after the many streams flowing into the Wusong River (now Suzhou Creek) in the area. Pronunciation en /t͡ʃɪŋpu/ chĭng′po͞o′en 1952 Tsingpu or Ch’ing-p’u 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/ 2 en Qing pu Proper noun en district city/Shanghai c/China. en June 16, 1905 The Proposed Municipal Read to the Hills. North-China Herald https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1905.06.16/ Shanghai LXXV 1975 311405954 587 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1905.06.16/page/587/ 2 The result has been that in response to a petition from the people of Chingpu, forwarded by the Shanghai Taotai, in whose jurisdiction the district lies, Viceroy Chou Fu, of Nanking, has informed the Waiwupu as to how matters are, with the request that, as Chingpu is not a Treaty port, nor a dependency of Shanghai district, the Waiwupu should communicate with the British and American Ministers in Peking and ask them to stop all further encroachments into Chingpu district. on en April 20, 2006 Elaine Louie China 's New Home Life w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20201028142930/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/style/home%20and%20garden/china-s-new-home-life.html October 28, 2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/style/home%20and%20garden/china-s-new-home-life.html 0362-4331 1645522 Style Although most of the new commuter towns are "characterless," according to Sun Jiwei, the local government's vice district chief in the Qingpu district, Zhujiajiao New Town, where Cambridge Watertown is situated, is an exception. Translations District of Shanghai, China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 青浦 Mandarin: cmn 青浦 Qīngpǔ References Further reading Qingpu, Ch'ing-p'u, Ching-pu, Ch'ingp'u, Chingpu, Tsingpu en 1998 Qingpu 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 2547 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2547/ 1