Chungking

From there, taking native boats he pressed still further up 358 miles to Chungking, in the province of Szechuen, arriving there on the 13th of May. A very interesting journey by land to Paoning Fu, over 300 miles northwest of Chungking, via Chiu Hsien, both going and returning, occupied him to the 14th of June.

1881, Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society, New York, page 122

The great Chinese people have suffered grievous losses; Chungking has been almost wiped out of existence – yet it remains the capital of an unbeatable China.

1942 February 23, Franklin Roosevelt, 34:10 from the start, in Fireside Chat 20: On the Progress of the War, Miller Center

Although both physicians were connected with official commissions, they were unable to get three passages on a river steamer for another half month. This boat, going only midway to Chungking, would land them at Ichang. There they would have to find further accommodations on some vessel specially constructed to negotiate Upper Yangtze rapids and whirlpools.

1942, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, When the Typhoon Blows, The John Winston Company, →OCLC, page 208

Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.

1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 6

Then, in 1941, decision was reached between the Chungking and American authorities to transport these fossils to the United States for safekeeping, and they were crated and moved to a warehouse in Ch’in-huang-tao, a small port city northeast of Peking, into the custody of the U.S. Marines.

1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51