Nanching
See also: Nan-ching
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nanching
- Alternative form of Nanjing
- 1979 January 14, L. Chen, “End of ‘Peking' but now what?”, in Free China Weekly[1], volume XX, number 2, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- We don’t know how soon this spelling will be accepted extensively elsewhere, but the city will be called “Peiping” (even though there is no peace there as the name suggests) by the free Chinese in Taiwan and the ROC Government will return to Nanking ("Nanching” or “Nanjing” depending on whether one uses the Wade or Yale system and meaning “southern capital”) when the mainland is recovered.
- 2009, Bill Porter, “No Work, No Food”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China[2], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 191:
- Although Tao-hsin didn’t travel to the capitals of Loyang or Ch’ang-an, he did travel to Nanching on at least one occasion. According to an account in a number of early Zen annals, one day when Tao-hsin was in Emperor Wu’s old capital, he happened to notice the sky above Oxhead Mountain south of the city.