Yen-ch'eng

English

Map including YEN-CH'ENG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 鹽城／盐城 (Yánchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-chʻêng².

Proper noun

Yen-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Yancheng
   • 1965, Samuel C. Chu, Reformer in Mondern China Chang Chien, 1853-1926‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:

     Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized.

   • 1976, Jane L. Price, Cadres, Commanders, and Commissars‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 165:

     Sources differ slightly on the location of the fifth branch. One report places this branch in Fou-ning, Kiangsu, headed by Ch'en I and Feng Ting. It was founded in September 1940 and originally situated in Yen-ch'eng.

   • 1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization‎^[3], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:

     The principal chien were Chia-hsing, Hsin-t'ing, Lin-p'ing and Lan-t'ing in the old kingdom of Wu south of the Yangtze and Yen-ch'eng and Hai-ling in the new Huai salines north of it.

Translations

Yancheng — see Yancheng

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yencheng or Yen-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2121, column 3