Qingpu

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Ching-pu, Tsingpu

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青浦 (Qīngpǔ, literally “Verdant Bank”), a 1542 combination of the name of 青龍 / 青龙 (Qīnglóng), the principal local town at the time, and 浦 (pǔ, literally “riverbank”) after the many streams flowing into the Wusong River (now Suzhou Creek) in the area.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪŋpu/

Proper noun

Qingpu

1. A district of Shanghai, China.
   • [1905 June 16, “The Proposed Municipal Read to the Hills.”, in North-China Herald‎^[1], volume LXXV, number 1975, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 587, column 2:

     The result has been that in response to a petition from the people of Chingpu, forwarded by the Shanghai Taotai, in whose jurisdiction the district lies, Viceroy Chou Fu, of Nanking, has informed the Waiwupu as to how matters are, with the request that, as Chingpu is not a Treaty port, nor a dependency of Shanghai district, the Waiwupu should communicate with the British and American Ministers in Peking and ask them to stop all further encroachments into Chingpu district.]

   • 2006 April 20, Elaine Louie, “China 's New Home Life”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 28, 2006, Style‎^[3]:

     Although most of the new commuter towns are "characterless," according to Sun Jiwei, the local government's vice district chief in the Qingpu district, Zhujiajiao New Town, where Cambridge Watertown is situated, is an exception.

Translations

District of Shanghai, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青浦 (zh) (Qīngpǔ)

Further reading

• Qingpu, Ch'ing-p'u, Ching-pu, Ch'ingp'u, Chingpu, Tsingpu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qingpu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 1