Definition of "Chungking"
Chungking
proper noun
Quotations
In the Province of Suchue, near to Chungking, grow certain Flowers called Meutang, in high eſteem amongſt them, and therefore called the King of Flowers.
1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 250
From there, taking native boats he pressed still further up 358 miles to Chungking, in the province of Szechuen, arriving there on the 13th of May. A very interesting journey by land to Paoning Fu, over 300 miles northwest of Chungking, via Chiu Hsien, both going and returning, occupied him to the 14th of June.
1881, Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society, New York, page 122
Although both physicians were connected with official commissions, they were unable to get three passages on a river steamer for another half month. This boat, going only midway to Chungking, would land them at Ichang. There they would have to find further accommodations on some vessel specially constructed to negotiate Upper Yangtze rapids and whirlpools.
1942, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, When the Typhoon Blows, The John Winston Company, page 208
Then, in 1941, decision was reached between the Chungking and American authorities to transport these fossils to the United States for safekeeping, and they were crated and moved to a warehouse in Ch’in-huang-tao, a small port city northeast of Peking, into the custody of the U.S. Marines.
1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, page 51
She said, ' Chungking, it's huge city. The centre of the Resistance! What are you scared about? The hostel for refugee students will take care of our food, housing, school and a job. You can do whatever you want.'
1981, Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon Press, published 1988, page 16
In Gordon's absence, Fenn helped Bernard set up the new base at Kunming. Gordon's talks with General Wedemeyer in Chungking had led to an investigation of Gordon's complaints; GBT's situation improved, temporarily, and the GBT settled in Kunming.
2019, Bob Bergin, “Three Amateur Spies and the Intelligence Organization They Created in Occupied WWII Indochina”, in Studies in Intelligence, volume 63, number 1, CIA, page 19