Chin-ch'uan

English

Map including Chin-ch'uan (DMA, 1975) (in Gansu Province) (far left, center)

Etymology

From Mandarin 金川 (Jīnchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-chʻuan¹.

Proper noun

Chin-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Jinchuan (Gansu)
   • 1971, Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver‎^[1], number 2, →OCLC, page 14:

     A magnificent find was reported in Wen Wu, 1966, 3, from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province.

   • 1993, Chinese Pen‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:

     A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹

   • 2002, Marylin Martin Rhie, Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia‎^[3], volume 2, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xiii:

     Figs. 2.44a-c Dhyānāsana Buddha with mandorla, canopy and 4-footed stand, from Yü-tu hsiang, Chin-ch'uan hsien, eastern Kansu, gilt bronze, Phase II, Kansu sheng po-wu-kuan, Lan chou

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2. Alternative form of Jinchuan (Sichuan)
   • 1895, William Woodville Rockhill, Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet‎^[4], 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.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “Tribal Uprisings”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[5], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 192:

     The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories.

   • 1956, Chien-nung Li, The Political History of China 1840-1928‎^[6], D. Van Nostrand Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:

     He professed to have twice defeated the Sungars in Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, once suppressed the rebellion of Moslems in Turkestan, twice put down insurrections in the Chin-ch’uan region in western Szechwan, once pacified a rebellion in Taiwan (Formosa), subjugated Burma and Annam, and twice vanquished the Gurkhas.

   • 1978, Joseph Fletcher, “Ch’ing Inner Asia c. 1800”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China‎^[7], volume 10, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 94:

     Even in easternmost Kham, adjacent to China proper, Ch’ing control was not easily maintained, especially in Chin-ch’uan (rGyal-rong), where the native Bon religion was stronger than in most parts of Tibet, and where the people spoke a Tibetan language that differed substantially from the dialects of Tibet proper.

   • 1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization‎^[8], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 126:

     Ch'ang-lu merchants subscribed[...]200 000 [taels] in 1748 to the suppression of the first Chin-ch'uan rebellion in the Tibetan borderlands;[....]

   • 2002, Jacques Gernet, “The Enlightened Despots”, in A History of Chinese Civilisation‎^[9], volume II, The Folio Society, →OCLC, page 508:

     The Ch’ing also had difficulties in the Chin-ch’uan, a very mountainous region in north-western Szechwan, where the local inhabitants, whose culture was Tibetan, rebelled from 1746-9 onwards.

   • 2006, C J Peers, “Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520-1840”, in Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC—AD 1840‎^[10], Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 226:

     The revolt in Chin-ch’uan in Szechwan lasted intermittently for 30 years after 1746, and the campaign which finally suppressed it, in 1771—76, is said to have cost twice as much as the wars against the Jungars.

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Translations

Jinchuan — see Jinchuan