Li-chiang

English

Map including LI-CHIANG (AMS, 1955)

Etymology

From Mandarin 麗江／丽江 (Lìjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Li⁴-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Li-chiang

1. Alternative form of Lijiang
   • 1908, Reginald Fleming Johnston, From Peking to Mandalay‎^[1], John Murray, →OCLC, page 157:

     I did not meet a single Chinese between Chê-to and Li-chiang in Yunnan¹- a journey that occupied about a month- and the Chinese language was entirely unknown.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[2], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321:

     In speaking of the important center of Li-chiang, Wang said the Han-Chinese of Yun-nan as well as of other parts of China were quite ignorant in some of their basic assumptions about this region. Some people, he said, think that Li-chiang is a wilderness of the wild barbarians or place it in the same category as Tibet.

   • 1963, Alvin K. Chock, “J. F. ROCK, 1884-1962”, in Newsletter of the Hawaiian Botanical Society‎^[3], volume 2, number 1, Honolulu: University of Hawaii, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 4–5:

     In 1922 Rock took up his residence in Li-chiang, the heart of the Na-khi country. His interest in these aboriginal people and their unique culture led him to make, a decade later, his life work the study of the Na-khi tribe of northwest Yün-nan Province. Using Li-chiang as a base, Rock explored and collected plants on the nearby Snow Range to the 17,000 foot level, in the Kingdom of Mu-li, and along the Burma-China border. By 1923 he was far into Yün-nan Province in southwest China, and the National Geographic Society took over the sponsorship of his explorations for more than a year.

Translations

Lijiang — see Lijiang