Qianjiang

See also: Qiánjiāng

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ien-chiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潛江／潜江 (Qiánjiāng).

Alternative forms

• Tsienkiang (historical, obsolete)

Proper noun

Qianjiang

1. A sub-prefectural city in Hubei, China, formerly a county.
   • [1965 July 9 [1965 June 7], “Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎^[1], number 131, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Domestic Service, →OCLC, page DDD 2‎^[2]:

     Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh. The county reported remarkable increased in its 600,000 mou of summer food crops this year, surpassing the yield in 1962 which was considered as the best year.]

   • 2011, Jianfei (刘建飞) Liu, 民主中国与世界 [Democracy and China]‎^[3], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

     The construction of democratic politics in some regions went backward. For example, Qianjiang Municipality in Hubei Province was given an award as the National Model City of the Villagers’ Autonomy by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but “there was an incident in which most of the members of the villagers’ committees were unlawfully replaced by the township governments.”

   • 2016 November 15, Javier C. Hernández, “‘We Have a Fake Election’: China Disrupts Local Campaigns”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 November 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     In Qianjiang City, in the central province of Hubei, activists said in interviews that they had been followed by the police and blocked from speaking with voters.

Translations

a sub-prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潛江／潜江 (zh) (Qiánjiāng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qianjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2545, column 3

Etymology 2

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黔江 (Qiánjiāng).

Proper noun

Qianjiang

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2013 January 17, John Kemp, “COLUMN-China offers greatest prize of all for shale gas: Kemp”, in Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 20 August 2023, Oil Report‎^[8]:

     Sinopec’s first exploratory well, Qianye-1, in the Qianjiang district of Chongqing, was completed in early 2012 and flowed a significant amount of gas.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黔江 (zh) (Qiánjiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qianjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2545, column 3