Liao-ch'eng

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See also: Liaocheng

English

Map including Liao-cheng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 聊城 (Liáochéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Liao²-chʻêng².

Proper noun

Liao-ch'eng

  1. Alternative form of Liaocheng
    • 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry‎, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 203:
      An Ch'ing-lan of Liao-ch'eng was a government student at an early age, but did not pass the provincial examination until many years later.
    • 1989, Yoshikawa Kōjirō, translated by John Timothy Wixted, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650‎, Lawrenceville, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
      The following five-character regulated verse, one of two entitled "Twelfth Month, Sixth Day,"²⁸ was written by Yuan Hao-wen while under house arrest in Liao-chʻeng.
      The empire still full of arms,
      At this edge of the world, the year again renewed.
      The dragon has shifted, leaving fish and turtles lost;
      The sun eclipsed, unicorns are fighting.
      Brambles amid grasses, these desolate hills are snowy;
      In my old garden, mist and flowers mark the spring.
      Here in Liao-chʻeng, a moon out tonight,
      I feel disconsolate still away from home.

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