Ch'ing-chiang-p'u

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chiang¹-pʻu³.

Proper noun

Ch'ing-chiang-p'u

1. Alternative form of Qingjiangpu
   • 1965, Samuel C. Chu, “Controlling the Huai”, in Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

     Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.

   • 1970, Ying-wan Cheng, “The Origin and Development of the Customs Post”, in Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896‎^[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:

     Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.

   • 1992, Lu Lan, “Sorrows of a Factory Worker”, in Li Yu-ning, editor, Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes‎^[3], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 176:

     I am employed as a female worker at the Prosperity Hosiery Factory, which is at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u [near Shanghai].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ing-chiang-p'u.

Translations

Qingjiangpu — see Qingjiangpu