Neijiang
English
Alternative forms
- Nei-chiang (Wade–Giles)
- Neikiang (Postal Romanization)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 內江/内江 (Nèijiāng).
Proper noun
Neijiang
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 1981, Yuzhang Wu, Recollections of the Revolution of 1911: A Great Democratic Revolution of China, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 25–26:
- Duan Fang took with him a contingent of the new army of Hubei, but they had established connections with members of the Revolutionary League at Wanxian and Neijiang, staged an uprising at Zizhou and killed Duan Fang. Following this, members of the Revolutionary League staged an uprising at Neijiang and other counties. By this time a part of the new army of Sichuan had also launched an uprising in the vicinity of Chengdu and had begun to march to Chongqing.
- 2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2023, Health:
- As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.
Translations
References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 359: “Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, […] Neikiang (Nei-chiang, Neijiang)”
Further reading
- Neijiang, Nei-chiang, Neichiang, Neikiang at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Neijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2139, column 3
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