Qingjiangpu

English

Alternative forms

• Tsingkiangpu (Postal Romanization)
• Ch'ing-chiang-p'u (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ).

Proper noun

Qingjiangpu

1. A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
   • [1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, pages 186–187:

     15. Chingchiangpu-Kwachou (on the Yangtse opposite the Chinkiang Railway). It was proposed to build the line from T’ungchou at the mouth of the Yangtse through Chingchiangpu and on to Haichow. The loan agreement to build the section from Tunchow to Chingchiangpu was recently abandoned, however, owing to the proposed line conflicting with a section of the Haichow-Lanchow Railway.]

   • 1987, Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising‎^[2], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:

     Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."

   • 2011, Zhongping Chen, “Elite and Official Interactive Movements”, in Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century‎^[3], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:

     In northern Jiangsu Province, similar merchant titleholders in the prefectural city of Huai’an and a town on the Grand Canal, Qingjiangpu, founded general and branch bureaus of commerce, respectively, after 1900. The leading merchant director in the Zhenjiang bureau would become a major founder of an affiliated chamber of commerce there, and the two bureaus in Huai’an and Qingjiangpu directly turned themselves into affiliated chambers later on.

Translations

a district in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ)