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Etymology
From Mandarin 景洪 (Jǐnghóng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching³-hung².[1]
Proper noun
Ching-hung
- Alternative form of Jinghong
1966, Peter Kunstadter, editor, Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations, volume I, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:The Nationalities Solidarity also reported on July 6, 1958: “One of the two very first cooperatives in Hsishuangpanna, the Su-sheng Agricultural Cooperative of Ching-hung County, which was first formed in May 1956, had to face mass withdrawal from the cooperative in April and May 1957. Twelve of the 30 member households firmly wanted to withdraw."
1973, George V. H. Moseley, III, The Consolidation of the South China Frontier, Berkley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:An accomplishment of great significance for the future of the Hsi-shuang Pan-na was the opening in December 1954 of a new highway linking the chou capital of Ching-hung (Ch'e-li) with Kunming, a distance of 741 kilometers.
1984, Science and Civilization in China, volume 6, Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 483:Three varieties of wild rice, O. rufipogon, O. officinalis and O. meyeriana, have been found in China, in a zone stretching from Hainan to Taiwan and from Northern Kwangsi to Ching-hung¹ on the Upper Mekong in Yunnan.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ching-hung.
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