Chu-ma-tien

English

Map including Chu-ma-tien (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 駐馬店／驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu⁴-ma³-tien⁴.

Proper noun

Chu-ma-tien

1. Alternative form of Zhumadian
   • 1921, E. G. Kemp, Chinese Mettle‎^[1], Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL, page 171:

     And what, meanwhile, of General Feng and his army? They were ordered to go to Chu-ma-tien in Honan.

   • 1913, Elizabeth Kendall, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia‎^[2], Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 224:

     And he did even better than his word, wiring ahead to the nights' stopping-places, Chu-ma-tien and Chang-te-ho, and when the train pulled in at each place, I was charmingly welcomed by the division superintendent with an invitation from his wife to put up with them;[...]

   • 2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times‎^[3], volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:

     The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.

Translations

Zhumadian — see Zhumadian