Pen-ch'i

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See also: pënchi

English

Map including PEN-CH'I (PENKIHU) 本溪 (AMS, 1956) (lower right)

Etymology

From Mandarin 本溪 (Běnqī),[1][2] Wade–Giles romanization: Pên³-chʻi¹.[2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pen-ch'i

  1. Synonym of Benxi
    • 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China‎, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284:
      Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
    • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 182:
      An-shan leads all other cities in China in steel production; Pen-ch'i is another important steel producer.
    • 1977, Albert Feuerwerker, Economic Trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
      Small-scale Chinese-owned factories were in evidence, but the principal modern industries were a network of Japanese-controlled producers' goods enterprises intended to furnish raw and semifinished materials to the Japanese economy. The Anshan and Pen-ch'i ironworks and the Fushun coal mines, large vertically integrated installations, were the most prominent among these units.

References

  1. ^ Benxi, also spelled Benqi, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 360:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Penki (Pen-ch’i, Benqi)
  3. ^ “Pen-ch'i”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 599, column 2

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