Peng-pu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 蚌埠 Wade–Giles romanization: Pêng⁴-pu⁴.

Proper noun

Peng-pu

1. Alternative form of Bengbu
   • 1929, Osvald Sirén, “The Prehistoric and Pre-Han Periods”, in A History of Early Chinese Art‎^[1], volume 1, London: Ernest Benn, →OCLC, →OL, page 59:

     A large part of the material from the Huai valley was collected on the spot by the Swedish civil engineer, Orvar Karlbeck, who for many years lived at Peng-pu in An-huei, and was handed over by him to some Swedish collections—the Countess Hallwyl's, the East Asiatic Collections, and the author's—but a number of specimens have been scattered in other collections, such as the Freer Gallery in Washington and the Hopp Museum in Budapest.

   • 1952, Wilfred G. Burchett, China's Feet Unbound‎^[2], Melbourne, Australia: World Unity Publications, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:

     The final stage of my trip entailed a thirty-six hour trip up the Huai on a river boat from Peng-pu to the focal point of the 1951 project at Jen Ho Chih where the Huai itself was being dammed up and diverted into natural lake-reservoirs with great dyke walls being built clear across a big lake to prevent it linking up with the Huai and other lakes during flood season. This entailed a major engineering project and would be the key to controlling the most vital section of the Huai Valley. Between Peng-pu and Jen Ho Chih sluice gates were being installed at the mouths of the fish-bone tributaries, where they emptied into the Huai. The tributaries are double dangers. Firstly their discharge swells the flood waters of the Huai and secondly they are weak links in the dyke system through which the swollen Huai waters can rush back over the surrounding countryside. So every tributary between Peng-pu and Jen Ho Chih was being blocked with steel and concrete sluice gates which could be slammed shut when the Huai is in flood and form steel links in the dyke wall. We visited the first of these towards dusk one evening.

   • 2011, Spencer C. Tucker, “Battle of Huaihai”, in Battles that Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict‎^[3], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 558:

     The 2nd Army Group was to the west along the railroad to Kaifeng, while the 16th Army Group was situated to the south along the rail line to Pengpu (Peng-pu) on the Huai River.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Peng-pu.

Translations

Bengbu — see Bengbu

Further reading

• “Peng-pu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.