"Nan-ch'uan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南川 (Nánchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻuan¹.",
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          "ref": "1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 251",
          "text": "Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north.",
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          "text": "As copper-silver exchange rate was not available for Nan-ch'uan county, the exchange rate for Ho-chiang county was taken.",
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