Chengkou

English

Alternative forms

• Chengkow (Postal Romanization)
• Ch'eng-k'ou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin 城口 (Chéngkǒu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chǔngʹkōʹ

Proper noun

Chengkou

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 1936 October 28, “Resident Deputy of French F. O.”, in North-China Herald‎^[2], volume CCI, number 3612, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 228, column 3:

     Salt Works Close
     Hundreds of thousands of workers are report unemployed as a result of the recent closing of the Chengkou saltworks, on the Shensi border of northeast Szechuen, which, closing, many believe, was deliberately engineered by the Kaihsien salt Producers, who were desirous of cornering that market.
     The trouble is aggravated by the Government's order that only salt produced in Kaihsien is to be sold in Chengkou. Decidedly angry at the state of affairs, the residents of Chengkou have declared that rather than buy Kaihsien salt, they would go without any salt.

   • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China‎^[3], Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Zhu Zhao-ling and others (1977) report a section at Chengkou County, northeastern Sichuan, and Ni Yu-nan (1978) revised the graptolite zones of the type Lungmachi Formation.

   • 2003 September 27, John Pomfret, “Taking on the Party in Rural China”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 April 2023‎^[5]:

     On Aug. 29, party officials from Chengkou county appeared in Pingba, arrested Wei and stopped the vote.

   • 2011, Liu Jianfei [刘建飞], “Tomorrow Will Be Better: Prospects of China's Construction of Democratic Politics”, in Democracy and China [民主中国与世界]‎^[6], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 121–122:

     Wei Shengduo, secretary of the Party Committee of Pingba Township of Chengkou County of Chongqing Municipality, did a comprehensive experiment on reforming the political system by trying the direct election of the secretary of the Township Party Committee and township head in 2003, but the reform was forced to stop under the interference of leaders at the county and municipal levels.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chengkou.

Translations

county in western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城口 (zh) (Chéngkǒu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengkou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 3