Szechuan

alternative Sichuan · alternative Szechwan

1. alternativeAlternative form of Sichuan.

   Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.

   1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, page 476

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   THE plain of Chengtu is the only large expanse of level ground in the great province of Szechuan; it is also one of the richest, most fertile, and thickly populated areas in the whole of China.

   1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist In Western China, With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom, volume I, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 104

   There is a portrait of Confucius at Ch’ü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she t’u, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Ch’êng-tu, Sze-ch’uan.

   [1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116

   The highway is one that was built to enable the Chiang Kai-shek government to evacuate to Chungking in the War of Resistance days, and Huayuan, our objective, is a county town in the middle of a high mountain plateau, only 25 kilometres from the Szechuan border.

   Travels in China, 1966-71

   1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 25

   In far-off southern Szechuan province last summer, while helping the peasants to effect the land reform, I saw group after group of young peasants, men and women, volunteer to help the aggressors away from our border and help neighboring Korea.

   1980, Ch'ien Tuan-sheng, edited by Harold C. Hinton, How the People's Government Works, 1952 (The People's Republic of China 1949-1979), volume 1, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., →ISBN, page 58

   Szechuan Province in southeastern China is well endowed with natural resources, fine landscapes and a long rich history. In early times, the several states which made Szechuan their home produced a line of famous generals whose lives have become the subject of myth, literary works and operas. Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles.

   1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, page 2