Nan-ch'uan

See also: Nanchuan

English

Proper noun

Nan-ch'uan

  1. Alternative form of Nanchuan
    • 1914, Hosie, Alexander, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, OCLC 3633929, page 251:
      Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north.
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