ch'ien-chiang

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

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"General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty."
"Not permitted to remain in the Academy, he was, after three years (1700) made district magistrate of Chʻien-chiang, Hupeh."
"Reassignment can rekindle the yearning for city life in UYs who have spent many years in the villages. A case in point is that of a young woman who settled in Ch’ien-chiang county, Hupei, in 1965, having come from Wuhan. She did well, joined the CCP in 1966, and became YCL branch secretary."
"As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910."
"As for the five in my family, my son and daughter-in-law had gone to Ch’ien-chiang, also in Hupei, to transplant seedlings and grow vegetables."
"Taniguchi, "Ch’u Bamboo Slips" (p.40) locates Yang-Yüeh on a line between modern Wuhan and Chiang-ling south of the modern city of Ch’ien-chiang 潛江 in Hupei."

From Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-chiang¹.