Tsinchow

alternative Ch'in-chou · alternative Qinzhou

1. historicalFormer name of Tianshui, a major city in China's Gansu province

   In some parts a woollen home-spun is manufactured, and the city of Tsinchow is famous for its beautifully carved walnut woodwork.

   1907, Marshall Broomhall, editor, The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey, page 192

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   Within weeks of their wedding they were heading back to Tianshui (Tsinchow) in Gansu. They were the first couple to move inland, and travelled to the north-west by boat, slowly hauled up the Han River with its rapids, carrying 18 boxes of books for Easton who was already in Tianshui alone.

   2004, Valerie Griffiths, “Inland Pioneers”, in Not Less than Everything, Monarch Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88

2. The Catholic diocese of southern Gansu, based in modern Tianshui