Way out there anon but…
Ancient history
Tradition associates Chongqing with the State of Ba. This new capital was first named Jiangzhou (江州).[13]
Ba (Chinese: 巴; pinyin: Bā; literally: "a pictograph for 'snake', linguistically meaning 'cling' and 'handle'")
Snake and the word handle jumped out. Chandler.
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_(state)
Chongqing used to be pro-democracy leader Chiang Kai-shek's capital.
He fled to Taiwan to create a democracy after Mao rose to power.
During and after the Second Sino-Japanese War, from Nov 1937 to May 1946, it was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital.
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing
Chongqing seems to be an organised crime hub too.
Organised crime and the gang trials Edit
See also: Chongqing gang trials
In the first decade of the 21st century, the city became notorious for organised crime and corruption. Gangsters oversaw businesses involving billions of yuan and the corruption reached into the law-enforcement and justice systems. In 2009, city authorities under the auspices of municipal Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai undertook a large-scale crackdown, arresting 4,893 suspected gangsters, "outlaws" and corrupt cadres, leading to optimism that the period of gangsterism was over.[28] However, local media later highlighted the apparent reliance by the authorities on torture to extract confessions upon which convictions were based. In December 2009, one defence lawyer was controversially arrested and sentenced to 18 months in prison for "coaching his client to make false claims of torture" and in July 2010, another lawyer released videotapes of his client describing the torture in detail.[29] In 2014, four policemen involved in the interrogation were charged with the practice of "opposed illegal interrogation techniques", considered by observers to be torture.[30] The number of security cameras increased significantly in the early 2010s to the highest of any city in the world at around 500,000.[31]
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing