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Chinese place names assistance request
[edit]The 1940 newspaper article[1] identifies a variety of Chinese locations by their place names of 1920s to 1940s. Not all have been identified (marked as '**'). What are they known as now?
- Pekin – Beijing. The school.
- Tientsin – Tianjin. Mission school.
- ** Unnamed location – 'Isolated spot 100 miles away [from Tientsin]–an island surrounded by fresh water lakes'. Half-an-hour to walk end-to-end. Population of 30 000. Fifty villages.
- ** Jen Chiu Hsien – '100 miles from the nearest white person'.
- Shih Chia Chuhung – Same province as Jen Chiu Hsien. Over 2000 women on street, with opium dens. So quite a large town/city.
- In May 1928, the troops of the north were retreating towards Pao-ting-fu, followed by Feng's forces which had reached Shia-chia-chuang.
- Pao-ting-fu – associated to the Tienstin railway towards Machang.
- Pao-ting-fu – Hopei Province, Tat-sing River is 6 mi N of P-t-u. Japanese attack in Sep 1937.
- Paoting – in Dec 1976, 180 km S of Peking. Indicating Shih Chia Chuang is the capital of Hopei Province in which Peking is located.
- Shia-chia-chuang is Shijiazhuang, the city SW of Beijing, the capital of Hebei province.
- Same as Shih Chia Tang? North of China, where temple turned into chapel in 1880.
- Same as Shih-chia-tan? (1911 mutiny, re the Manchu city?).
- Same as Shin Chia Chuang, near Peiping (formerly Pekin) (Nov 1947 Chaing Kai-Shek army defeat).
- Shih-chia-chuang is 90 mi S of Pao-ting-fu (May 1928 where Marshal Feng was going to Tienstin but had to reverse). In Oct 1927, also written as Chih Chia Chuang.
- ** Ping-Ti-Chuan, North West Frontier. Marshal Feng's military base.
- Ping-ti-chuan, is 70 mi N of Tatung on the Sul-yuan railway (Sep 1937, captured by Japanese).
- Kan Su province – Cut off for seven months. Feng's military base hospital. Southern Army took possession in 1928.
- Or is Kansu west of Suiyuan, east of Tibet? (Based on Aug 1937 Japan-China war map explanation.)
- 1900 battles suggest it is the extreme north-western province of China, pop. 3 810 000 people (1931), south of Mongolia, with a capital of Lanchow.
- So it is not Guangzhou but Gansu Province, with a capital of Lanzhou. Will amend main page later.
- ** Kwei Yhua – in Kan Su province?
- Kwei Chou is a province.
- Honan Province – Henan, alternatively Honan.
Just found Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1920 which maps Pao-Ting.
Thanks! Q8682 (talk) 15:33, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- an island surrounded by fresh water lakes – likely to be Baiyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in northern China
- Pao-ting = Baoding, and that makes
- Shia-chia-chuang = Shijiazhuang
- Kan Su province = Gansu Province
References
- ^ "The story of Zara Dare missionary in China to policewoman in Brisbane". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 4 March 1940. p. 15 (City Final Last Minute News). Retrieved 20 January 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
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