Ch'in

Proper noun

Ch'in

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • The Mongols invaded Szechuan in 1236, and Ch’in fled to the east, where he first became a vice-administrator (t’ung-p’an) in Ch’i-chou prefecture (now Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh province) and then governor of Ho-chou (now Ho-hsien in Anhwei province).1991, Ho Peng-Yoke, “Ch’in Chiu-shao”, in Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians: Reference Biographies from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 481, column...
   • Ch’in Li-chun, who had studied Japanese and now worked for a Japanese railway company in Shantung province, committed suicide. ‘The Japanese language I had studied in Japan for ten years,’ he wrote in his suicide note, ‘suddenly went out of my mind due to the stimulus on May 7; I was therefore not...2014, William Mulligan, “Empire and Nations, 1915”, in The Great War for Peace, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 130