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Chinese place names assistance request

The 1940 newspaper article 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

Q8682 (talk) 13:13, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

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