Qingchuan

See also: Qīngchuān

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: chǐngʹchwänʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青川 (Qīngchuān).

Alternative forms

• Chingchuan (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Qingchuan

1. A county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.
   • 2008 May 26, “Some areas in China to relax one-child policy for quake victims”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-18, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue.

   • 2013 May 27, Cynthia Chan, “Giving teachers in disaster zones spiritual training”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on 2013-06-10, Family & Relationships‎^[5]:

     Since a magnitude eight earthquake struck Qingchuan county, Sichuan, five years ago, killing more than 80,000, a Hong Kong education expert has been working on a reconstruction of a different kind.

   • 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake‎^[6], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

     Qingchuan is one of Sichuan’s poorest counties. In 2010 the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council published a report on Qingchuan’s pre- and post-earthquake economic situation. “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward. Before the earthquake, poverty was already substantially worse [in Qingchuan] than in other national poverty alleviation project areas.”

   • 2017 September 30, Ben Blanchard, “Quake rattles southwestern China causing minor damage”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, Richard Pullin, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 2023-08-07, World News‎^[8]:

     The Sichuan government said several rail services had been suspended for safety checks, but that it had not received any reports of power being cut off in any parts of the province.
     It also showed pictures from Qingchuan county, the quake’s epicentre, with everything looking as normal and with no damage.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青川 (zh) (Qīngchuān)

Further reading

• Qingchuan, Chingchuan, Ch'ing-ch'uan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qingchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 3

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清川江 (Qīngchuānjiāng).

Proper noun

Qingchuan

1. Synonym of Chongchon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1989 April 4 [1987 August], Dezhi Yang, “Regulations”, in Leo Kanner Associates, transl., For Peace [Weile Heping]‎^[10], Foreign Technology Division, →OCLC, page 113:

     That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the "Yang Liandi Company".

   • 2006 [2003], Jae-eun Kang, “Confucianism in the Three Kingdoms Period”, in Suzanne Lee, transl., The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism‎^[11], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:

     Goguryeo's General Euljimundeok allowed the Sui army to approach Pyeong'yang, but launched a protracted war of defending the castle. The Sui army, suffering from exhaustion and shortage of supplies, finally retreated. The retreating Sui army suffered a crushing defeat at Sashui (薩水, old name of Qingchuan River, 淸川江), where it was surrounded and attached; only 2,700 Sui soldiers escaped.

   • 2008 September, Yaohui [董耀会] Dong, “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城]‎^[12], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48:

     The Great Wall of North Zhao started in the west from the western frontier of Shanggu County, i.e., the area from the north of Huailai County of today’s Hebei Province, to Dushikou and Luanheyuan. It ended in the east in the eastern frontier of Liaodong Town, i.e., the Qingchuan River drainage area of today’s DPRK.

   • 2017, Hongzhou Zhang, Mingjiang Li, China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia‎^[13], →ISBN, →OCLC, page [14]:

     Since then, Korea started to build castles and moats in the Jurchen community, pushing the frontiers to the upper and middle stretches of the Qingchuan River (Ch'ongch'ongang) and the lower stretches of the Yalu River.

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

Translations

river

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清川江 (Qīngchuānjiāng)