Puqi
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蒲圻 (Púqí).
Proper noun edit
Puqi
- (historical) Synonym of Chibi.
- 1980 December, Bolin Huo, “Shanghai Helps Backward Small Industries”, in China Reconstructs[1], volume XXIX, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
- ONE of the problems in China’s economy today is: In the past decade many places built industries to utilize local raw materials or supply local markets with goods. But often these plants were technically backward, and the goods they produced were of poor quality, or even unsalable. This was once true of the Xianning district, consisting of seven counties south of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River in Hubei province. […]
Poor management was the problem in a local electrical goods factory operated by Puqi county.
- 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China] (China Knowledge Series)[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 176:
- The site is identified as Chijishan to the west of present-day Wuchang County, Hubei, or Chibishan to the northwest of Puqi County, also in Hubei.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Puqi.
- A subdistrict of Chibi, Xianning, Hubei, China.
Translations edit
subdistrict in central China
Further reading edit
- Puqi, P'u-ch'i, Pu-chi, Puchi at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Puqi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2534, column 3