Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Qingjiangpu.
I am employed as a female worker at the Prosperity Hosiery Factory, which is at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u [near Shanghai].
1992, Lu Lan, “Sorrows of a Factory Worker”, in Li Yu-ning, editor, Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1762 more examples
Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.
1965, Samuel C. Chu, “Controlling the Huai”, in Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.
1970, Ying-wan Cheng, “The Origin and Development of the Customs Post”, in Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65
Origin
- Mandarin清江浦
- EnglishCh'ing-chiang-p'u
From Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chiang¹-pʻu³.
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