Chenggu

alternative Ch'eng-ku

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.

   Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwester province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007.

   2007 September 3, “Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023, World News

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   Zhang Qian, buried in his home town in Chenggu County, was the first envoy in Chinese history to visit the western regions and thus form the initial link between China and her western neighbours.

   1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138

   The policy-making officials in the war capital of Chung-king had decided to relocate the Northwestern Teachers’ College from Ch’êng-ku county, southern Shênsi province, to Shih-li-tien, literally Ten-miles-distanced store, a suburb of the city of Lanchou, Kansu province.

   [2002, Chu Yin-tsung McIntyre, The Snow Storm Over Temple Ta-er, Pittsburg, Penn.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1