Li-ch'uan

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English

Map including Li-ch'uan (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 利川 (Lìchuān) Wade-Giles romanization: Li⁴-chʻuan¹.

Proper noun

Li-ch'uan

  1. Alternative form of Lichuan.
    • 1912 , W. H. Wilkinson, “Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China, Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 51:
      Recent letters show that Wushan and K'uei-fu, towns on the river below Wan Hsien, were still in the hands of the existing Government on the 8th instant, though Li-ch'uan, west of Shihnan-fu, in the extreme corner of Hupeh, was reported to be in the hands of the revolutionaries.
    • 1976, Philip West, Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:
      Hsü Pao-ch'ien was dismayed by the bickering and lack of commitment of the Christian students working with rural reconstruction in Li-ch'uan.

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