What is "chungking"

Usage examples of "chungking".

Yet by the Chefoo Convention, Chungking is to become an open port as soon as the first foreign steamer shall reach there.

Backus, flew a DC-3 from Chungking to Chengtu, where they obtained two Curtiss Hawk-III fighter planes from the Chinese air force.

A stout middle-class man of forty-eight with a large, plump face, thinning hair and a rather Germanic if good-natured appearance, he had begun his career in China as a language student in 1907, and had served as Consul in cities from Hankow to Chungking.

After another all-day bus ride, they arrived at Hengyang, 410 miles from Chungking,.

On May 3 they boarded a bus and rode for three days to the airfield at Hengyang, where a plane was sent to take them to Chungking.

Szechuen man, a native of Chungking, fifty-nine years of age, Wong is a man of immense wealth, his bank being known all over China, and having branches in capital cities so far distant from each other as Peking, Canton, Kweiyang, Shanghai, Hankow, Nanchang, Soochow, Hangchow, and Chungking.

By now he had been authorized to return to Peiping preparatory to the end of his tour in May and so his stay in Chungking was short, lasting only from December 19 to 31.

I might, with luck, reach Chungking as soon by water as I could reach Wanhsien at half the distance by land.

Consul in Chungking told me, is the average weight carried by the cloth-porters between Wanhsien and Chentu, the capital.

Pacifist Asians seize Chungking and start manufacture of anti-Viton beams.