Szechwan

English thumb|Map of part of SZECHWAN PROVINCE zh 四川省 (Army Map Service AMS, 1958) Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 四川 Sìchuān. Pronunciation en /ˈsɛˌtʃwɑn/ /ˈsʊ-/ sĕʹchwänʹ sŭʹchwänʹ Proper noun en Szechuan: en Sichuan Q19770. en https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen00broo/mode 1907 Mark Tennien The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey Marshall Broomhall Morgan & Scott London 118 https://archive.org/details/chineseempiregen00broo/page/118/mode/ We shall then have two great streams of traffic at this point intersecting one another, the waterway of the Yangtse bringing produce and people down from Szechwan and the west to the coast, and taking back the imports and produce of the coast provinces, as well as numberless travellers to the far interior; while the great trunk railway from Canton to Peking will convey an enormous traffic between these cities and all intermediate places. en 1917 E. I. Hart The Chinese Tartarus Virgil C. Hart: Missionary, Statesman, Founder of the American and Canadian Missions in Central and West China https://archive.org/details/questforrose0000phil_h6f0/ New York w:Hodder & Stoughton; w:George H. Doran Company 5912925 163 https://archive.org/details/MN41608ucmf_1/page/n193/ WHERE the Upper Yangtse widens, and the perilous rapids are past, and the mountains begin to recede from the shore, is situated one of China's most interesting cities—the City of Fungteu, a place of great historical romance. The picturesque little mount just outside the city walls is literally covered with large and venerable temples, and next to Mount Omei in central Szechwan, is perhaps the greatest religious retreat in the land. May 12, 1934 May 11, 1934 MISSIONARY SEIZED BY BANDITS IN CHINA; Rev. Howard Smith, American, Held for Ransom -- Hull Is Urged to Aid Release. https://web.archive.org/web/20230827001010/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/12/archives/missionary-seized-by-bandits-in-china-rev-howard-smith-american.html 27 August 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1934/05/12/archives/missionary-seized-by-bandits-in-china-rev-howard-smith-american.html 4 The Rev. Howard Smith of Washington, Pa., missionary of the Christian and Missionary Alliance at Pengshui, in Northwest Szechwan Province, has been kidnapped by "rouges," crimson-clad Chinese irregulars, it was learned here today. en 1943 Hubert Freyn Free China's New Deal https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/ New York w:Macmillan Company 635748038 6 https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/page/6/ Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base. en https://archive.org/details/archaeologyinchi0001zhen/ 1966 Prehistoric China Chêng Tê-k’un 1 W. Heffer & Sons England 37 https://archive.org/details/archaeologyinchi0001zhen/page/37 Before leaving the Old Stone Age in Pleistocene China, it may be worthwhile to mention two additional sites in South China which have recently been investigated. In 1951 the remains of the Tzŭ-yang Man was unearthed at Huang-shan-hsi, in Tzŭ-yang, Szechwan (48. 49–50). en https://archive.org/details/culturalrevoluti0000unse/ 1971 The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces w:Harvard University Press 8 https://archive.org/details/culturalrevoluti0000unse/page/8 Shielded from China proper and the central government by mountains, Szechwan is a huge "rice bowl" whose population of seventy to eighty million makes it larger than all but nine countries in the world. When the Communists took Szechwan in 1950, they were determined to bind the province tightly to the rest of the nation. National leaders, despite objections from Szechwan, concentrated on doubling Szechwan grain. In achieving an agricultural surplus, Szechwan 's leaders won a reputation for astutely applying mechanical innovation, work incentives, and technical training. In the Cultural Revolution such pragmatism was denounced for neglecting politics and pursuing "capitalist restoration." en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-02-15_17_6/ February 15, 1976 Red security personnel involved in power struggle Free China Weekly XVII 6 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-02-15_17_6/page/n2/ Radio Szechwan reported on Feb. 3 that many "security organizations" in Szechwan had sent cadres to schools at various levels to instruct students on the class struggle. . . to criticize and destroy the class enemy. en https://archive.org/details/warlordsofchina70000peer/ 1998 Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662 Chris Peers Arms and Armour Press Arms and Armour 1-85409-401-7 144 https://archive.org/details/warlordsofchina70000peer/page/144 But the fighting was not yet over. The province of Szechwan in the far west did not fall for three more years, while Yunnan in the south-west remained in the hands of Yuan loyalists until 1382. Derived terms en Szechwanese Descendants Latin: mul szechwanensis Further reading pn Portuguese Proper noun m pt Sichuan: pt Sichuan Q19770