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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)