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Qingjiangpu
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English
Qingjiangpu District
Alternative forms
en Tsingkiangpu Postal
en Ch'ing-chiang-p'u Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Qingjiangpu/Ch'ing-chiang-p'u see Huaiyin romanization of the en cmn 清江浦.
Pronunciation
chĭng′jyäng′po͞o′
en Qing jiang pu
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Huai'an in central p/Jiangsu in eastern c/China.
en 1914 Rowland R. Gibson Forces Mining and Undermining China https://archive.org/details/forcesminingund00gibs/ 2nd London w:Andrew Melrose 250099616 24660585M 186–187 https://archive.org/details/forcesminingund00gibs/page/186/ 15. Chingchiangpu-Kwachou (on the Yangtse opposite the Chinkiang Railway). It was proposed to build the line from T’ungchou at the mouth of the Yangtse through Chingchiangpu and on to Haichow. The loan agreement to build the section from Tunchow to Chingchiangpu was recently abandoned, however, owing to the proposed line conflicting with a section of the Haichow-Lanchow Railway. on
en 1987 w:Joseph W. Esherick The Origins of the Boxer Uprising https://archive.org/details/originsofboxerup00jose/ w:University of California Press 0-520-06459-3 86-16054 185283489 174 https://archive.org/details/originsofboxerup00jose/page/174/ Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."
en 2011 Chen Zhongping Elite and Official Interactive Movements Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century https://archive.org/details/modernchinasnetw0000chen/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 978-0-8047-7409-3 2011000529 692288482 55 https://archive.org/details/modernchinasnetw0000chen/page/55/ In northern Jiangsu Province, similar merchant titleholders in the prefectural city of Huai’an and a town on the Grand Canal, Qingjiangpu, founded general and branch bureaus of commerce, respectively, after 1900. The leading merchant director in the Zhenjiang bureau would become a major founder of an affiliated chamber of commerce there, and the two bureaus in Huai’an and Qingjiangpu directly turned themselves into affiliated chambers later on.
Translations
a district in eastern China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 清江浦
Mandarin: cmn 清江浦 Qīngjiāngpǔ
References
en geographical terms borrowed from Mandarin