Pengshui
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Etymology edit
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).
Proper noun edit
Pengshui
- A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
- 1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949[1], volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978, →OCLC, page 596:
- Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.
- 2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems[2], Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211:
- In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.
- 2020 August 21, Linette Lai, “China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit”, in The Straits Times[3], archived from the original on 21 August 2020:
- Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.
They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pengshui.
Translations edit
Miao and Tujia autonomous county
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Further reading edit
- Pengshui, P'eng-shui at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pengshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2398, column 3