Dianjiang
English
Alternative forms
- Tien-chiang, Tienchiang (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江／垫江 (Diànjiāng).
Proper noun
Dianjiang
- A county of Chongqing, China.
- 2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2022, Asia Pacific:
- State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.
- 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:
- In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dianjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2
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