Ch'in

Appendix:Variations of "chin" English Etymology From en cmn ^秦, en cmn-wadegiles -Qin dynasty, (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’in, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 477 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/477/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Ch'in (Qin) state, dynasty zh 秦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.Qin State/Ch'inen 2017 Languages Other than English The Chicago Manual of Style Seventeenth https://archive.org/details/chicagomanualofs0017unse/ University of Chicago Press 10.7208/cmos17 2017020712 988171830 652 https://archive.org/details/chicagomanualofs0017unse/page/652/ Wade-Giles PinyinCh’in Qin romanization: Chʻin². Pronunciation chĭn Proper noun en Mandarin. en 1991 Ho Peng-Yoke Qin Jiushao Ch’in Chiu-shao Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians: Reference Biographies from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict01amer/ 1 0-684-19282-9 90-52920 23048481 481 https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict01amer/page/481/ 2 The Mongols invaded Szechuan in 1236, and Ch’in fled to the east, where he first became a vice-administrator (t’ung-p’an) in Ch’i-chou prefecture (now Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh province) and then governor of Ho-chou (now Ho-hsien in Anhwei province). en 2014 William Mulligan Empire and Nations, 1915 The Great War for Peace https://archive.org/details/greatwarforpeace0000mull/ w:Yale University Press 978-0-300-17377-2 2013041983 1120540516 26886574M 130 https://archive.org/details/greatwarforpeace0000mull/page/130/ Ch’in Li-chun, who had studied Japanese and now worked for a Japanese railway company in Shantung province, committed suicide. ‘The Japanese language I had studied in Japan for ten years,’ he wrote in his suicide note, ‘suddenly went out of my mind due to the stimulus on May 7; I was therefore not able to serve the company. I could not provide food and clothes for my family so I had to die.’ en Qin. en 1940 H. Y. Lowe (zh 盧興源) The Story of Qu Yuan Ch’ui P’ing The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man https://archive.org/details/adventuresofwuli0000lowe/ Princeton, NJ w:Princeton University Press 1983 0-691-06552-7 82-48568 918023643 146–147 https://archive.org/details/adventuresofwuli0000lowe/page/n172/ There lived a young political genius, not more than thirty years of age, by the name of Ch’ui P’ing (he is better known to the Chinese as Ch’ui Yuan). Young Ch’ui hailed from a rich and influential family of nobles and before long he won the confidence of the then Ch’u emperor, King Huai of Chu Hwai Wang, and was appointed to a high administrative position. He made recommendations in lengthy memorials and advocated giving the citizens of Ch’u a new deal and a square one at that. The emperor had taken him in as his right hand man allowing him a free hand in the politico-military situation with a high-sounding title which would translates no less than Supreme Crown Adviser and Expert Consultant, and entrusted to him the important duties, on account of his diplomatic acumen, of an ambassador-at-large on a politically inspired tour of the various minor states, notably the Kingdom of Ch’i (the present Shantung province) in an attempt to negotiate some alliance of joint action in defending themselves against the expansionists schemes of the Kingdom of Ch’in, whose domain then was roughly the present Shensi province. He almost succeeded in his mission. en https://archive.org/details/tigerofchindrama00cott/ 1962 The Tiger of Chʻin: The Dramatic Emergence of China as a Nation w:Leonard Cottrell w:Holt Reinhart and Winston 220 In this "Memorial," his last appeal to the emperor, Li Ssu described his long life of service to the state of Ch'in. He recalled the day when, as a young, unknown scholar, he had entered the service of the minister Lu Pu-wei. In those days, he wrote, "Ch'in 's territory did not exceed a thousand li and its soldiers did not number more than a hundred thousand." en https://archive.org/details/ancientchinaintr0000hsuc/ 1965 Ancient China in Transition: An Analysis of Social Mobility, 722–222 b.c. w:Cho-yun Hsu w:Stanford University Press 65-13110 313731364 45 Lu Pu-wei was a prosperous businessman in the large city of Han-tan in Chao, where he met a prince of Ch'in who was being kept as hostage in the capital. en 1968 Wallace Sokolsky Empire w:Encyclopedia Britannica 8 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita08chic/ 68-10064 1036882 345 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita08chic/page/345/ 2 In China, after several hundred years of political turbulence, a king of Ch’in, a northern state, took the conquest title, Shih Huang Ti, meaning First Universal Ruler. Though a powerful man, one who, for example, had most of the Great Wall finished, his rule was considered harsh and after his death the people accepted a new dynasty known as the Han. en https://archive.org/details/madmanofchuchine0000schn/ 1980 A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent Laurence A. Schneider w:University of California Press 0-520-03685-9 6546562 174 A bit of local lore claims that this mound is actually one of twelve in the area. The others were decoys, raised by the people to confuse the "traitors of Ch'u and the troops of Ch'in who would have desecrated the Corpse of Ch'ü Yüan." Translations Qin References Anagrams en chin HNIC NCHI Inch inch ichn-