Chiu-ch'üan

English Etymology From en cmn 酒泉 Jiǔquán en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chiu³-chʻüan².Jiuquan, Wade Giles romanization Chiu-ch’üan, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Jiuquan. en 1964 William Samolin East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century https://archive.org/details/eastturkistantot0000unse/ The Hague Mouton & Co 185830464 5937814M 57–58, 89 https://archive.org/details/eastturkistantot0000unse/page/57/ It is not clear whether Tardu's attack on Chiu-chʻüan (97) preceded the aforementioned intrigue. (97) zh 酒泉 en 1974 D. J. Dwyer China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/ w:Longman 0-582-48076-0 73-87225 963067253 236 https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/page/236/ No less than eight shafts have been started since 1953 at Shih-chü-shan (Shihtsuishan), and by 1962 they were expected to produce 5 million tons a year. They will largely feed railways, especially the Lan-chou (Lanchow)—Pao-t’ou line, and, eventually, the projected steelworks at Chiu-ch’üan (Kiuchuan) in Kansu. en 1979 w:Yasushi Inoue Lou-lan w:Edward Seidensticker Lou-lan and Other Stories https://archive.org/details/loulanotherstori00inou/ w:Kodansha International 0-87011-389-5 79-66239 6014345 14 https://archive.org/details/loulanotherstori00inou/page/14/ The men of Lou-Ian thought that they would not again see the Hsiung-nu. They had heard that the Han had routed the nomads and they were not beyond believing the rumors. They had been told by travelers that there were Han stations at Chiu-ch'üan and Tun-huang, once Hsiung-nu strongholds, that the Great Wall had been extended to Chiu-ch'üan, that to the west of Tun-huang there were numerous beacon towers and strong points, among them the Jade Gate and the Yang Barrier, and that communication routes between Han China and the Western Marches had been secured. en References