Qujing
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲靖 (Qūjìng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Qujing
- A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
- , volume 1, Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 88:
- The traffic in eggs was enormous, and I found, on inquiry, that they came from the prefectural city of Ch'ü-ching Fu, as a collecting centre, a four and a half days' journey to the north-east of Yunnan Fu, and that the traffic ceased in summer, not owing to the heat, which, one might imagine, would have a tendency to addle the eggs, but to the concomitant of heat and moisture, the mosquito, the female of which pierces the shells with her proboscis and thereby admits the air.]
- , volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:
- The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.]
- 2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76, column 1:
- Although 96% of the city’s population are ethnic Han Chinese, there is a collection of minority peoples also in Qujing. The largest of these are the more-than 16,000 Yi, followed by 11,000 Hui, 3,000 Miao and 1,200 members of the Bai nationality.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qujing.
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
Further reading
- Qujing, Ch'u-ching, Chu-ching, Chuching at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qujing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2558, column 2