Ch'ing-chiang-p'u
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-chiang¹-pʻu³.
Proper noun
editCh'ing-chiang-p'u
- Alternative form of Qingjiangpu
- 1965, Samuel C. Chu, “Controlling the Huai”, in Reformer in Modern China, Chang Chien, 1853-1926[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
- Now the group of forty graduates were put to work as a partial solution to the shortage,¹³ and he went ahead with the establishment of a surveying bureau at Ch’ing-chiang-p’u, where the Grand Canal crosses the former course of the Yellow River.
- 1970, Ying-wan Cheng, “The Origin and Development of the Customs Post”, in Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:
- Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ing-chiang-p'u.
Translations
editQingjiangpu — see Qingjiangpu