Shih-chia-chuang

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English

Map including SHIH-CHIA-CHUANG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 石家莊 / 石家庄 (Shíjiāzhuāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Shih²-chia¹-chuang¹.[1]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shûrʹjē-äʹjwängʹ

Proper noun

Shih-chia-chuang

  1. Alternative form of Shijiazhuang
    • 1912, Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China, London: Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 67:
      The revolt of the troops at Taiyuan-fu, in Shansi, has, after a small skirmish, resulted in an affair at the junction at Shih-chia-chuang, when General Wu Lu Chen (the late commander of the 6th division, sent to pacify the Shansi rebels) was murdered.
    • 1970, Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966, Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26:
      The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang ; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.
    • 1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100:
      We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.
    • 1981, “Shih-chia-chuang”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume IX, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144, column 1:
      Shih-chia-chuang, Pin-yin romanization SHI-JIA-ZHUANG, a city in west central Hopeh Province (sheng), China, a subprovincial-level municipality, an administrative centre of the Shih-chia-chuang Area ti-ch’ü), and the administrative capital of Hopeh Province.
    • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
      Hsing-t'ai, Han-tan, and Shih-chia-chuang are thus among the numerous Shang sites marked by heavy upper Erh-li-kang cultural manifestations.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shih-chia-chuang.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Shijiazhuang, Wade-Giles romanization Shih-chia-chuang, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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