Ssu-ch'uan

From Mandarin 四川 (Sìchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Ssŭ⁴-chʻuan¹.[1]

Ssu-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Sichuan
   • [1895, William Woodville Rockhill, Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 694:

     The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-chʻuan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2.]

   • 1898 May, G. J. L. Litton, Report of a Journey to North Ssu-ch'uan‎, Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 6:

     It appears that heavy autumn rains following on the break-up of a hot summer are prevalent all over Ssu-ch'uan, except at Sungpan where the climate is the same as North China, heavy summer rains and fine autumn.

   • 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China‎, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     Orographic rain seems significant only when the monsoon current runs into the high plateaux of Yun-nan and Kuei-chou, and into the mountains of Ssu-ch'uan. Thus the famous Omei Shan of Ssu-ch'uan is one of the wettest places in China, and receives on the average about 76 inches a year.

   • 1999, Daniel L. Overmyer, Precious Volumes‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:

     At Patriarch's invitation, Taoist "Perfected and Friends of the Way" accompany him to Ssu-ch'uan.