Szechuan

English Alternative forms Sichuan en Szechwan Etymology From the en zh-postal - of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanjing court dialect en cmn 四川. Pronunciation en /ˈsɛʃ.wɑn/ /ˈsɛt͡ʃ.wɑn/ /ʃɛʃ.wɑn/ Proper noun en Sichuan. en https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest01wils/mode 1913 A Naturalist In Western China, With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom Ernest Henry Wilson I Methuen & Co. Ltd. London 104 https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest01wils/page/104/mode/ THE plain of Chengtu is the only large expanse of level ground in the great province of Szechuan; it is also one of the richest, most fertile, and thickly populated areas in the whole of China. en 1919 John Calvin Ferguson John C. Ferguson Outlines of Chinese Art https://archive.org/details/outlineschinese00ferggoog/ Chicago w:University of Chicago Press 877423366 116 https://archive.org/details/outlineschinese00ferggoog/page/n134/ There is a portrait of Confucius at Ch’ü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she t’u, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Ch’êng-tu, Sze-ch’uan. on en https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED022780/ 1967 THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS Dennis J. Doolin; Charles P. Ridley Hoover Institution Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace 476 Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province. en 1973 w:Rewi Alley zh:中国见闻<t:Travels in China, 1966-71> https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/ Peking w:New World Press 462299220 25 https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/page/25/ The highway is one that was built to enable the Chiang Kai-shek government to evacuate to Chungking in the War of Resistance days, and Huayuan, our objective, is a county town in the middle of a high mountain plateau, only 25 kilometres from the Szechuan border. en https://archive.org/details/peoplesrepublico01hint/ 1980 How the People's Government Works, 1952 The People's Republic of China 1949-1979 1 Ch'ien Tuan-sheng Harold C. Hinton 0-8420-2166-3 Scholarly Resources Inc. Wilmington, Delaware 58 In far-off southern Szechuan province last summer, while helping the peasants to effect the land reform, I saw group after group of young peasants, men and women, volunteer to help the aggressors away from our border and help neighboring Korea. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-03-22_22_11/ March 22, 1981 Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival Free China Weekly XXII 11 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-03-22_22_11/page/n1/ Szechuan Province in southeastern China is well endowed with natural resources, fine landscapes and a long rich history. In early times, the several states which made Szechuan their home produced a line of famous generals whose lives have become the subject of myth, literary works and operas. Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles. October 5, 2003 Corinne LaBalme WHAT'S DOING IN; Paris https://web.archive.org/web/20150527230140/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/travel/what-s-doing-in-paris.html 27 May 2015 Travel But long before that, Parisians will have had ample chance to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture. From Oct. 14 to Jan. 28, the Hôtel de Ville,showcases recent Bronze Age excavations in the Szechuan Province, in western China, including artifacts from the Jinsha site (1200-1000 B.C.) discovered in February 2001. en 2008 Simon Foster The Three Gorges Adventure Guide: China Hunter Travel Guides https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781588436412/ Hunter Publishing 978-1-58843-641-2 1020217556 263 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781588436412/page/263/ This gargantuan population and the city’s strategic importance led to Chongqing’s separation from its parent province, Szechuan, in 1997, and it was designated as a “specially administered municipality,” controlled directly by the central government. en 2012 Saul David The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Warfare https://archive.org/details/theillustratedencyclopediaofwarfare_201909/ w:Dorling Kindersley 978-0-7566-9548-4 283 https://archive.org/details/theillustratedencyclopediaofwarfare_201909/page/n282/ Despite this aerial assistance, the Chinese were again forced to withdraw westward, this time to Chongqing in the mountains of Szechuan. en Derived terms en Kansu-Szechuan Time Zone en Szechuanese en Szechuan button en Szechuan pepper en szechuanensis en Szechuan lovage Further reading pn en China