Definition of "Qujing"
Qujing
proper noun
A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
Quotations
The traffic in eggs was enormous, and I found, on inquiry, that they came from the prefectural city of Ch'ü-ching Fu, as a collecting centre, a four and a half days' journey to the north-east of Yunnan Fu, and that the traffic ceased in summer, not owing to the heat, which, one might imagine, would have a tendency to addle the eggs, but to the concomitant of heat and moisture, the mosquito, the female of which pierces the shells with her proboscis and thereby admits the air.]
, volume 1, Small, Maynard & Company, page 88
The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.]
, volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, page 30, column 1
Although 96% of the city’s population are ethnic Han Chinese, there is a collection of minority peoples also in Qujing. The largest of these are the more-than 16,000 Yi, followed by 11,000 Hui, 3,000 Miao and 1,200 members of the Bai nationality.
2001 February, Paul Hattaway, China's Unreached Cities, volume 1, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Darawan Printing, page 76, column 1