Meaning of Qingyuan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
2. A Manchu autonomous county in Fushun, Liaoning, China.
3. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

Examples

“The same point⟳ of view⟳ was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶”

“The political and legal affairs committee of Qingyuan district in Baoding, Hebei province, announced on Friday that it would look⟳ into the allegation after a report⟳ by The Beijing News that day. According to the report⟳, the police officer, identified only by his family name⟳ Yang, was being tried for dereliction of duty in Qingyuan District People’s Court last⟳ month when he submitted a recording of a conversation in which the boss allegedly tells Yang and an auxiliary officer to take⟳ full responsibility for the death of a suspected criminal.”

“Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge⟳ of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question⟳. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the braves ? Answer⟳. The braves, in general. . . .”

“1945 January[…] 19. China: Japanese troops take⟳ Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.”

““I booked my ticket this morning after hearing the news,” said Chen Ting, who was accompanied by her three-year-old son among about 40 people getting off a train⟳ in Hubei’s Xianning city. The 28-year-old had travelled from Qingyuan city in the southern province of Guangdong, where she runs a wholesale business.”

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