Pengshui
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Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).
Proper noun
Pengshui
- A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
- 1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949, volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978, →OCLC, page 596:
- Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.
- 2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211:
- In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.
- 2020 August 21, Linette Lai, “China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 21 August 2020:
- Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.
They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pengshui.
Translations
Miao and Tujia autonomous county
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Further reading
- Pengshui, P'eng-shui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pengshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2398, column 3