Qujing

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ü-ching

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 曲靖 (Qūjìng).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuːˈd͡ʒɪŋ/

Qujing

1. A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
   • [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎, volume 1, Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 88:

     The traffic in eggs was enormous, and I found, on inquiry, that they came from the prefectural city of Ch'ü-ching Fu, as a collecting centre, a four and a half days' journey to the north-east of Yunnan Fu, and that the traffic ceased in summer, not owing to the heat, which, one might imagine, would have a tendency to addle the eggs, but to the concomitant of heat and moisture, the mosquito, the female of which pierces the shells with her proboscis and thereby admits the air.]

   • [1978 July, Tu, Yu-ting; Chen Lu-fan, “Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais?”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:

     The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The up- rising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.]

   • 2001 February, Hattaway, Paul, China's Unreached Cities‎, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76, column 1:

     Although 96% of the city’s population are ethnic Han Chinese, there is a collection of minority peoples also in Qujing. The largest of these are the more-than 16,000 Yi, followed by 11,000 Hui, 3,000 Miao and 1,200 members of the Bai nationality.

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