Jianli

See also: jiānlì, jiǎnlì, jiànlì, and Jiànlì

English

Alternative forms

• Kienli (Postal Romanization)
• Chien-li (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 監利 / 监利.

Proper noun

Jianli

1. A county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

     Kingcheu commands over thirteen Cities, as Kingcheu, Cunggan, Xexeu, Kienli, Sungki, Chikiang, Iling, Changyang, Itu, Juengan, Quei, Hingxan, Patung.]

   • [1958, Chun-heng Wang, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series)‎^[2], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 116:

     Out of the gorges, the river meanders on flat lands in the Middle Yangtse Plain, forming many bow-shaped lakes, particularly near Chienli County, Hupeh.]

   • [1968, O. Edmund Clubb, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     Reds control the area bounded by Tsaoshih, Chujushan, Pailochi, Kienli, and Tienmen, with the Soviet located somewhere in Kienli hsien (in the region of Choulaotsui, or Chuho?). The designation of this organization is: "Kienli Hsien Soviet Government (監利縣蘇維埃政府)", with control residing in a presidium.]

   • [1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[4], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:

     Chien-li hsien was also a fertile area for chen since it was located by the Yangtze river in an area crossed by numerous rivers and contained a population of 883,000.]

   • 2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China‎^[5] (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:

     Beijing estimates that 9.7 million more farmers will be forced to leave the land after accession, but others think that the real number will be four times that. In Huangqiao, a town in Jianli County of central Hubei Province, about 90 percent of the peasants have abandoned their homes and fields. Some have even abandoned their lives; suicides are on the rise, and a whole family drowned themselves in despair.
     “I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is failing because of the decline of agriculture.

   • 2015 June 4, David Barboza, “Relatives of Yangtze Ship Passengers Seek Answers Amid Search for Survivors”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[7]:

     In Jianli County in Hubei Province, where the ship capsized, the authorities have begun lining up special coffins, decorated with flowers, in anticipation of the huge numbers of bodies that are expected to be found in the days ahead. […]
     The confirmed death toll increased to 77 on Thursday, CCTV said, and about 1,200 family members have arrived in Jianli, officials said.
     More than 1,100 responders and 100 boats were participating in rescue efforts, the Jianli county chief, Huang Zhen, told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.

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

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 監利 / 监利 (zh) (Jiànlì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Jianli, Chien-li, Kienli at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jianli”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1

Anagrams

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