Qingjiangpu

English

Alternative forms

• Tsingkiangpu (Postal Romanization)
• Ch'ing-chiang-p'u (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ).

Proper noun

Qingjiangpu

1. A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
   • 1987, Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising‎^[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:

     Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."

   • 2011, Zhongping Chen, “Elite and Official Interactive Movements”, in Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century‎^[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55:

     In northern Jiangsu Province, similar merchant titleholders in the prefectural city of Huai’an and a town on the Grand Canal, Qingjiangpu, founded general and branch bureaus of commerce, respectively, after 1900. The leading merchant director in the Zhenjiang bureau would become a major founder of an affiliated chamber of commerce there, and the two bureaus in Huai’an and Qingjiangpu directly turned themselves into affiliated chambers later on.

Translations

a district in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ)