Tsingkiangpu

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Proper noun

Tsingkiangpu

1. Alternative form of Qingjiangpu
   • 1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China‎^[3], Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:

     On the return, he left the canal eighty-five miles below Tsingkiangpu, and to the astonishment and alarm of country folk, he roared and bumped home along the Imperial Highway, narrow and rough, easily beating the record for a journey between Shanghai and Tsingkiangpu.

   • 2006, Stephen Fortosis, Boxers to Bandits‎^[4], Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25:

     The upper four-fifths of the Jiangsu Province was almost untouched by the Gospel with less than 100 Chinese believers among, perhaps, 30 million people. Eventually the Grahams moved to Tsingkiangpu, a town in northeastern Jiangsu with a population of approximately 130,000 (in modern China the city of Tsingkiangpu is renamed Huaiyin).

   • 2010, Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones‎^[5], Profile Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

     In the end an opening was found for him as stand-in for a colleague on furlough in Zhenjiang, the city he had left a decade earlier to open up Tsingkiangpu and its hinterland.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsingkiangpu.