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Pengshui
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English
Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County
Alternative forms
en P'eng-shui Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 彭水.
Pronunciation
pŭng′shwā′Pengshui or P’eng-shui 1450 1
en Peng shui
Proper noun
en Miao and Tujia autonomous county city/Chongqing c/China.
en November 15, 1949 Strong The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State Foreign Relations of the United States 1949 VII https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0000unit_r8d5/ 1978 Chungking w:Government Printing Office 2924407 596 https://archive.org/details/foreignrelations0000unit_r8d5/page/596/ Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.
en 2012 February 19, 2008 Xiaobo Liu Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion Louisa Chiang No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems https://archive.org/details/noenemiesnohatre0000liux/ w:Belknap Press 978-0-674-06147-7 2011014145 709670311 211 https://archive.org/details/noenemiesnohatre0000liux/page/211/ In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.
en AUG 21, 2020 Linette Lai China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit https://web.archive.org/web/20200821194228/https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/chinas-top-diplomat-calls-on-pm-lee-hsien-loong-and-dpm-heng-swee-keat-during-visit 21 August 2020 w:The Straits Times Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.
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Translations
Miao and Tujia autonomous county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 彭水
Mandarin: cmn 彭水
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Pengshui, P'eng-shui
en 1998 Pengshui 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 2398 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2398/ 3
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