"Szechuan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist In Western China, With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom, volume I, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 104",
          "text": "THE plain of Chengtu is the only large expanse of level ground in the great province of Szechuan; it is also one of the richest, most fertile, and thickly populated areas in the whole of China.",
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          "ref": "[1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116",
          "text": "There is a portrait of Confucius at Ch’ü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she t’u, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Ch’êng-tu, Sze-ch’uan.]",
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          "text": "Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.",
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          "ref": "1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 25",
          "text": "The highway is one that was built to enable the Chiang Kai-shek government to evacuate to Chungking in the War of Resistance days, and Huayuan, our objective, is a county town in the middle of a high mountain plateau, only 25 kilometres from the Szechuan border.",
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          "text": "In far-off southern Szechuan province last summer, while helping the peasants to effect the land reform, I saw group after group of young peasants, men and women, volunteer to help the aggressors away from our border and help neighboring Korea.",
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          "ref": "1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, page 2",
          "text": "Szechuan Province in southeastern China is well endowed with natural resources, fine landscapes and a long rich history. In early times, the several states which made Szechuan their home produced a line of famous generals whose lives have become the subject of myth, literary works and operas. Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles.",
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          "ref": "2003 October 5, Corinne LaBalme, “WHAT'S DOING IN; Paris”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, Travel",
          "text": "But long before that, Parisians will have had ample chance to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture. From Oct. 14 to Jan. 28, the Hôtel de Ville,[…]showcases recent Bronze Age excavations in the Szechuan Province, in western China, including artifacts from the Jinsha site (1200-1000 B.C.) discovered in February 2001.",
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          "ref": "2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides), Hunter Publishing, →OCLC, page 263",
          "text": "This gargantuan population and the city’s strategic importance led to Chongqing’s separation from its parent province, Szechuan, in 1997, and it was designated as a “specially administered municipality,” controlled directly by the central government.",
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