Chungching

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A form of Chongqing — A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Chongqing.

    A Chinese Wei Chi Club was first set up by Chen Li-fu, advisor to the President, in Chungching, Szechwan Province, during the Second World War, and the club was reactivated in Taiwan in 1953.

    1981 January 25, “Wei Chi-old Chinese game enjoys wide following”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 4, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
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    The "grand grey city" of Chungching (to which Mr. Little succeeded in taking up a steamer) and many another in the Yangtsze Valley owe absolutely nothing to the foreigner or foreign influence, and "in no city in Europe," writes the distinguished correspondent of the Times, Dr. Morrison, " is security to life and property better guarded than in Chungking."

    1900, J. W. Robertson-Scott, The People of China, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 147

    Mr. Uno supported Japan during the war. His eldest son, Kazumaro, was an American citizen, but he worked for the Japanese military in Tokyo and had captured Mr. James Young, the International News Service correspondent in Chungching who had been sending reports attacking the Japanese military since before the war.

    2008 [1948], Yasutaro (Keiho) Soga, translated by Kihei Hirai, Life behind Barbed Wire: the World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaiʻi Issei, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99

Origin

From Mandarin 重慶/重庆 (Chóngqìng) via Wade–Giles.

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