Ch'ien-chiang

A form of Qianjiang — A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China, formerly a county.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Qianjiang (Hubei)

    Not permitted to remain in the Academy, he was, after three years (1700) made district magistrate of Chʻien-chiang, Hupeh.

    朱軾

    1943, Rufus O. Suter, “CHU Shih [朱軾]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644–1912), volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 188, column 2
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    General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.

    1924 August 2, “Who's Who in China”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XXIX, number 9, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 2

    Reassignment can rekindle the yearning for city life in UYs who have spent many years in the villages. A case in point is that of a young woman who settled in Ch’ien-chiang county, Hupei, in 1965, having come from Wuhan. She did well, joined the CCP in 1966, and became YCL branch secretary.

    1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “The Stability of the Settlement”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258

    As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.

    1980, Christopher C. Rand, “Introduction”, in The Wilderness (Yüan-yeh) 原野, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page viii

    As for the five in my family, my son and daughter-in-law had gone to Ch’ien-chiang, also in Hupei, to transplant seedlings and grow vegetables.

    2002 [1988], Annping Chin, quoting Chang Yun-ho, “Yun-ho”, in Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183

    Taniguchi, "Ch’u Bamboo Slips" (p.40) locates Yang-Yüeh on a line between modern Wuhan and Chiang-ling south of the modern city of Ch’ien-chiang 潛江 in Hupei.

    2006, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, “Ch’u, Hereditary House 10”, in Weiguo Cao, transl., edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records,, volume V.1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 385

Origin

  1. Mandarin潛江 /潜江
  2. EnglishCh'ien-chiang

From Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-chiang¹.

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