Dianjiang

• (from Wade–Giles) Tien-chiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江／垫江 (Diànjiāng).

Dianjiang

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • [1920, Jolliffe, R. O., “The Field”, in Our West China Mission: Being a Somewhat Extensive Summary by the Missionaries on the Field of the Work during the First Twenty-five Years of the Canadian Methodist Mission in the Province of Szechwan, Western China‎, Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 109:

     Roughly speaking, the Chungchow District comprises the three counties of Chungchow, Fengtu and Shihchu. A corner of the Tienchiang county belongs to our Mission, and also a large section of country forming the south-eastern portion of Szechwan province.]

   • [1977, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, number 84-93, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     In Tienchiang County, which suffered rather greatly from the interference and sabotage of the gang of four, the party committees at all levels were formerly paralyzed and nobody bothered about revolution or production.]

   • 2011, Dikötter, Frank, 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.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dianjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1015, column 2