Zhenjiang
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 鎮江／镇江 (Zhènjiāng).
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Zhenjiang
- A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China
- 2019 October 17, Amy Qin, “China Detains 2 Americans Amid Growing Scrutiny of Foreigners”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-17, Asia Pacific[5]:
- The two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained late last month and are being held in Zhenjiang, a town in Jiangsu Province, according to GoFundMe pages set up by friends and relatives.
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a city in China
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References edit
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 476: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Chen-chiang (Zhenjiang) 鎮江”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chinkiang, Chenkiang, or Chen-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 398, column 3
- ^ “Chen-chiang or Chin·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150, column 2
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhenping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3564, column 1