Sungkiang

From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 松江 (Sōngjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

Chang-hai, a town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of cotton cloth. It is 18 miles SE of Song-kiang.

[1809, “Chang-hai”, in The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary, 14th edition, page https://archive.org/details/cihm_32443/page/n176/, column 2:

CHANG-HAI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the province of Kiang-nan, or Nan-king ; 6 leagues S.E. of Song-kiang.

[1819, Abraham Rees, “CHANG-HAI”, in The Cyclopædia ; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, volume VII, page https://archive.org/details/b24991454_0007/page/n466/, column 1:

Though small in area, the territory occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is perhaps the most important and strategic section of China. It contains Shanghai, the greatest port and commercial center of China, Nanking, the new capital, Soochow, the cultural and educational center, Huchow, the silk city, and the important cities of Changchow, Sungkiang, and Wusih.

1929, Elmer T. Clark, The Church and the World Parish, Nashville, Tenn.: Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, page 28:

The condition of Sungkiang is typical of the state of affairs throughout this densely populated delta between Shanghai and Nanking, and testifies to what may have been one of the greatest mass migrations of population in history. No one is able to answer the question of what has happened to the hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, of Chinese who have literally disappeared from this area. The whole thirty-mile route between Shanghai and Sungkiang is like a desert, with rice crops ungathered and left rotting in the fields as far as I could see.

1938, H. J. Timperley, editor, Japanese Terror in China, New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., page 72:

The streets of Shanghai rattled with revolutionary tremors as Chiang's armies came closer and closer. They entered Chekiang, his home province, and on February 17, 1927, took Hangchow and advanced to Kashing and Sungkiang. They were less than twenty-five miles from Shanghai.

1983, Harrison E. Salisbury, China: 100 Years of Revolution, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:

Dated form of Songjiang: a district and former county of Shanghai, China.

Songjiang

China's first two collective farms were reported in the Communist press in the summer of 1952. One is said to be near Kiamusze in Sungkiang province in northeastern Manchuria; the other, near Tihwa in Sinkiang province.

1953, Frank Moraes, “"The Land Is Ours"”, in Report on Mao's China, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 56:

Before 1905, Harbin was the center of the Russian-controlled part of Manchuria. It still has a large Russian population. In 1949, Harbin became the capital of Sungkiang province.

1958, “Harbin”, in The World Book Encyclopedia, volume 8, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, page 3274:

Dated form of Songjiang: a former province of China.


克克吐魯克

ㄎㄜˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄊㄨˋ ㄌㄨˇ ㄎㄜˋ

ㄎㄜˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄊㄨˋ ㄌㄨˇ ㄎㄜˋ

/kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tʰu⁵¹ lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤ⁵¹/

Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
w:Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County

Keketuluke (a region of Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China; located in the Pamir Mountains near the China-Afghanistan border)


Sansha

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三沙 (Sānshā, literally “three sands”), from the three areas of Nansha (南沙 (Nánshā, literally “south sands”)), Xisha (西沙 (Xīshā, literally “west sands”)) and Zhongsha
(中沙 (Zhōngshā, literally “central sands”)).

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In 2007 Beijing established the new Sansha municipality in Hainan Province, which has jurisdiction over three islets that Vietnam claims in the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos. This led to large-scale protest demonstrations outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi.

2009, Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 294:

As recently as June 2012, Vietnam passed a maritime law reasserting its sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands and delimiting its maritime claims for both.²²⁰ On the same day, in response to this challenge to its claimed sovereignty, China upgraded the status of Sansha City. Vietnam and the Philippines expectedly protested but, unusually, so did the United States.²²¹

2014 June, Clarence J. Bouchat, The Paracel Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches in the South China Sea, Carlisle, PA: United States Army War College Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:

The PRC has also used lawfare to bolster its territorial claims in the South China Sea by designating the village of Sansha, located on the disputed Paracel Islands, as a Hainan Prefecture in an attempt to extend PRC control far into the region.

2020, Kerry K. Gershaneck, Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to “Win without Fighting”, Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:

On Saturday it said it had established an administrative district on the Paracel islands and another on the Spratly islands. The two districts are under the control of China’s Sansha city, according to China Global Television Network.
“The establishment of the so-called Sansha City and related activities seriously violated Vietnam’s sovereignty,” Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement.

2020 April 19, “Vietnam protests Beijing's expansion in disputed South China Sea”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-04-20:

A prefecture-level city of Hainan, China (claimed areas encompass areas administered or claimed by Brunei, China (PRC), Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (ROC), and Vietnam).


Sansha

From Mandarin 三沙 (Sānshā) Wade–Giles romanization: San¹-sha¹, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Sansha Bay, 62 miles north of Foochow, is one of the good harbors on the China coast. It has deep water and is surrounded on all sides by steep precipices.

1945 May, Notes on the China Coast, volume XIV, number 5, →OCLC, page 22:

Shelter port on Fukien coast The Sansha [phonetic] storm shelter port in Hsiapu County, Fukien, was completed in September after several years' work.

1963, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, number 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 30:

In order to receive the Taiwan fishermen compatriots, the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee in early 1978 formally established these reception stations at the four fishing ports of Sansha in Xiapu [Hsiapu],[...]The Sansha reception station in Xiapu received 12 Taiwan fishing boats in 1978 and everytime^([sic]) helped repair the boats and engines, provided fuel and drinking water and purchased grain, meat, vegetables and other foods before they departed.

1979, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 12-22, →ISSN, →OCLC:

I once went to the farther north coast of Fujian Province, our province's northeast part, Sansha Town of Xiapu County, (三沙镇，霞浦县) where, off the coast, the sea water in some place is bluer than it is here. At that time in Sansha Town, after I saw the blue water and an islet which emerges from the blue sea, so bleak, so solitary that I dreamed a fantastic dream at night: I was like a fish in the deep, unfathomable blue.

2015, 高坚辉 [Jianhui Gao], Stories from Fujian, China, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Boats are moored to take shelter in waters off Sansha town in Xiapu county in southeastern China's Fujian province on Monday.

2020 August 4, “Typhoon Hagupit hits east China and heads towards Shanghai”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2020-08-04:


大雪山

/tä⁵¹ ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tua²²⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ suã⁴⁴/

/tä⁵¹ ɕy̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tua²²⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ suã⁴⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ se(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ suã⁴⁴/

Daxue Mountains (a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China; part of the Hengduan Mountains)


路南

(～區) Lunan (a district of Tangshan, Hebei, China)


大涼山

/tä⁵¹ li̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/taːi̯²² lœːŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

/tä⁵¹ li̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʂän⁵⁵/

/taːi̯²² lœːŋ²¹ saːn⁵⁵/

Daliang Mountains (a mountain range in the southern part of the Sichuan province, China)


越西

/jyːt̚² sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/jyːt̚² sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Name change from homophonous 越嶲 in 1959.

(～縣) Yuexi (a county of Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China)


毛坦廠

/mɑʊ̯³⁵ tʰän²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɑʊ̯³⁵ tʰän²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

(～鎮) Maotanchang (a town in Jin'an district, Lu'an, Anhui, China)


Shizhu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石柱 (Shízhù).

The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.

1982 February, Huanran Wen, He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:

The ministry also summoned officials from the county of Shizhu in southwest China’s Chongqing for allowing an industrial park to encroach on protected nature reserves.

2018 June 4, Muyu Xu, David Stanway, “China summons officials to pollution 'name and shame' meeting”, in Richard Pullin, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-27, Environment:

The education commission of Shizhu county in Chongqing said the beating was inflicted by the founder of an illegal centre called Liuliu, which the commission last year ordered to close down because it did not have a permit to operate, online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Thursday.

2019 August 16, Ann Cao, “Online fury after tutor beats child in class in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-16, Society:

A Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Liangping

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 梁平 (Liángpíng).

Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.

1978 August 8 [1978 July 29], “Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, page E 18:

Many of the travelers on the passenger boats and buses leaving Chongqing for towns along the river and interior counties like Kaixian and Liangping are on their way to visit their lao jia, their family's town of origin, a place they may have left for university or which their grandparents fled in wartime.

2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:

China’s official Xinhua news agency said the deaths occurred when two primary schools toppled in Liangping county of Chongqing, a municipality of 30 million that neighbours Sichuan.

2008 May 12, Lindsay Beck, Guo Shipeng, Darren Schuettler, “China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-10-13, World News:

After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.

2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-11-04, Travel:


Dianjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江 /垫江 (Diànjiāng).

Tien-chiang (alternative)
Tienchiang (alternative)

State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.

2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-27, Asia Pacific:

In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.

2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53:


Fengdu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 豐都 /丰都 (Fēngdū).

Feng-tu (alternative)
Fengtu (alternative)

The Library of Congress has the largest collection of Chinese local histories outside China, with more than 4,000 titles in all. They are rich in historical data on local institutions, customs, geography, and plants and animals of the area. Shown here is a typical volume from the local history of Feng-tu County, Ssu-ch’uan Province, published in 1710.

[1980, Charles A. Goodrum, “Orientalia”, in Treasures of the Library of Congress, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

My great aunt was the first to starve in the village; my cousin rushed home from the mining school where he was a student to carry out his duties as eldest son. On his way there, he passed through Fengdu County, and saw the famine's great toll on the populace.

1998 [1997], Hong Ying, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Daughter of the River, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

He said an algal bloom from too many nutrients earlier this year on a tributary had contaminated drinking water for 50,000 people in Fengdu County.

2007 November 19, Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-03-10, Asia Pacific, page 2:

An initial investigation showed that her seat belt had broken and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly enough at the Chaohua Amusement Park in Fengdu county in Chongqing municipality, the national product safety regulator said on Saturday.

2017 February 5, “Girl, 13, dies after being thrown off ride at Chinese amusement park”, in South China Morning Post, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-05, China:


Pengshui

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 彭水 (Péngshuǐ).

Kweiyang is said to have fallen November 14 as did Pengshui in southeast Szechuan to inferior Communist forces.

1949 November 15, Strong, “The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State”, in Foreign Relations of the United States 1949, volume VII, Chungking: Government Printing Office, published 1978, →OCLC, page 596:

In August 2006, Qin Zhongfei, a clerk in the Personnel Department of the Education Committee of the Pengshui County government, in the municipality of Chongqing, wrote a poem set to the rhyming scheme of “Springtime Seeping through a Fragrant Garden” in which he satirized county officials.

2012 [2008 February 19], Xiaobo Liu, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211:

Dr Balakrishnan said in a separate post that both leaders had a fruitful discussion on bilateral relations, and discussed regional and global developments in a post-coronavirus world.
They also witnessed a cheque presentation ceremony for a charity project initiated by the Singaporean community in China to help alleviate poverty in Chongqing's Pengshui County.

2020 August 21, Linette Lai, “China's top diplomat calls on PM Lee Hsien Loong and DPM Heng Swee Keat during visit”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 2020-08-21:

A Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Youyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酉陽 /酉阳 (Yǒuyáng).

The agency said the tree, which is 1,344 metres in diameter, is believed to be about 75 years old, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry Science. It was found in Youyang county, Sichuan (Szechwan) province.

1979 February, “Biggest Tree in China”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

Travelling recently in southern, rural Chongqing, I was struck by the sense that something in the atmosphere was different from elsewhere in the mainland. Youyang county is a Tu ethnic area, and even though the Tu look different from Han Chinese - they are darker, with longer noses and diamond-shaped eyes - it was not the physical difference.

2004 June 28, “Rare women”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-02:

A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.


Xiushan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秀山 (Xiùshān).

Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan.

1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

An explosion hit an unlicensed fireworks factory early on Sunday morning in remote Xiushan county, in southwestern Chongqing, destroyed three nearby houses and left one person missing, the Beijing News said.

2007 October 23, “Blast at fireworks workshops kills 18 in China”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-07, Latest Crisis:


Changshou

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃoʊ/

"The refinery will be in Changshou (district), and investment will be $3 billion. CNPC is working with us," Huang said.

2007 October 15, Huang Qifan, quotee, “China's Chongqing plans 10 mln t/year CNPC refinery”, in Reuters:

Heavenly-blessed Changshou, a book on travel, culture & history compiled by the members of the CPPCC of Changshou District, is original in conception, accurate in content, informative with both text & photos, detailed and concise. This book provides a systematic introduction to the natural sceneries, history & culture, folk customs and eco-environment of Changshou, which is exhaustive & fascinating and serves as a historical reference, and displays collectively the tourism culture of Changshou for the first time.

2013, Zhang Mingsheng et al., editors, 天赐长寿 [Heavenly-blessed Changshou], Beijing Book Co. Inc., →ISBN:


Fuling

In 1097 his teachings were prohibited, his land was confiscated, and he was banished to Fu-chou Prefecture (modern Fu-ling County in Szechuan).

[1967, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Chinese Series), New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxx:

Carved stone inscriptions at Fuling, Szechuan, record low water levels in 72 different years beginning with A.D. 764.

1976 August, Nai Hsia, “New Archaeological Finds Enrich Study of Early Science”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3:

Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.

1977 August, L. Y. K., “Archaeology and Yangtze Development Scheme”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 8, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.

2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:

“All we knew was the code name 816,” said Li Tingyong, a local resident and later head of the Fuling tourism bureau, in a 2010 television program about the 816 plant. “But we had no idea what it was a code name for. It was very mysterious.”

2017 January 24, Amy Qin, “A Chinese Nuclear Site, Hidden in a Mountain, Is Reborn as a Tourist Draw”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-25, Asia Pacific:


Nanchuan

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南川 (Nánchuān).

A specimen collected at Nanchuan, Szechuan, by the two German collectors Bock and von Rosthorn, was named H. xanthoneura.

1957 July, Elizabeth McClintock, “Hydrangeas”, in National Horticultural Magazine, volume 36, number 3, American Horticultural Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:

Sanquan township in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, has received 305mm of rain in the past three days, the heaviest downpour since records began, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing meteorological authorities.[...]
In Nanchuan district, two road workers were reported missing, while 32 homes collapsed, and 360 were evacuated, Xinhua reported.

2014 August 12, “Floods batter southwestern China”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-05-07:


Qijiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 綦江 (Qíjiāng).

In Szechwan UY housing was defined as "a long-term item of capital construction."¹¹⁴ A provincial conference was held in 1973 on the financial problems of UY settlement, in which the county authorities were evidently asked to supply building materials, for the same report goes on to say that "Chichiang County CCP Committee has provided 300 cubic meters of timber for the educated youths to build houses."¹¹⁵

[1973 October 30 [1973 October 29], Radio Chengtu, “Settlement of Young People Underway in Szechwan Countryside”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 209, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 4; republished as “Adapting to Rural Life: Problems and Remedies”, in Thomas P. Bernstein, editor, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 154-155:

Six miners escaped Tuesday's accident in Qijiang county, an official at the Chongqing coal mine administration bureau told Reuters. Thirteen were killed and one was missing.

2003 October 29, “13 dead in China mine accident”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-04-29:

On October 26, 2011, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality instructed the People's Court of Qijiang District to enforce rulings on the case. The People's Court of Qijiang District issued an announcement on December 30, 2011, requiring the tenant to vacate the premises.

2022, L. Jia, “Chongqing Aosi Lidu Entertainment Co., Ltd.”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, volume 3, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88:


Jiangbei

/ˈd͡ʒɑŋˌbeɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江北 (Jiāngběi).

Eight areas had been set aside, he said, for the reception of these refugees in Chungking and Chiangpei, a neighboring town actoss the Kialiang River, a tributary of the Yangtse.

[1938 June 18, “Growing U.S. Sympathy for China Seen in Mounting Contributions for Relief”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 85, number 3, →OCLC, page 84, column 2:

In 1891 she had an urgent message from the chief magistrate in the city of Chiangpei, opposite Chungking at the mouth of the Chialing river. His wife was seriously ill, but he would only allow a woman to help. The city gates were kept open late for her, a special four-bearer chair, with runners ahead to clear the way, swept her through the streets; but it was too late, and although the magistrate was persuaded to let a fully qualified male doctor come, his wife died, and the already strong anti-foreign feeling in Chiangpei was strengthened by the belief that the foreign medicines had killed her.

[1988, Charles Tyzack, “The Liverpool of West China”, in Friends to China: The Davidson Brothers and the Friends' Mission to China 1886 to 1939, York, England: William Sessions Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 26:

Construction is booming in Chongqing. In the Jiangbei district, work on a high-rise apartment complex called Zhujiang Taiyang is under way.

2007 June 1, Howard W. French, “Big, Gritty Chongqing, City of 12 Million, Is China’s Model for Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, Asia Pacific:

Cab drivers in Chongqing, China’s fourth-largest city, staged a rare strike Monday in protest against a series of gripes ranging from the scarcity of fuel to heavy traffic fines, Xinhua news agency said.
Three police cars and more than a dozen other vehicles were smashed by a crowd of about 100 people in the city’s Jiangbei district, the agency said.

2008 November 3, Beijing newsroom, “China city's stressed-out cabbies go on strike”, in Nick Macfie, Paul Tait, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-09, Lifestyle:

On April 2, 2010, the People's Procuratorate of Jiangbei District, Chongqing, initiated a public prosecution of Li Zhuang to the People's Court of Jiangbei District, Chongqing, for the alleged crime of impairing testimony as defender. On April 28, 2011, the People's Court of Jiangbei District, Chongqing decided not to sue Li Zhuang and announced the decision to Li Zhuang.

2016, Jiang Ping, “Dilemma and Breakthrough for China's Rule of Law: Reflection on Several Issues About the Legal System Construction of China”, in Jian Ping, editor, Dreams And Reality: New Era Of China's Reform, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:


Yuzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 渝中 (Yúzhōng, literally “central Chongqing”).

bor

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

Cruises to the Three Gorges are board at the Chaotianmen Dock in Yuzhong District (6310 0659), tickets require advanced booking.

2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

The shopping area of Jiefangbei (“Monument of Liberation") in the Yuzhong District includes a wide variety of stores, recreation centers, hotels, and other facilities.

2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:

People young and old enjoy an afternoon on the banks of the Jialing River, facing the central Yuzhong district of Chongqing.

2012 December 24, Matt McCann, “In Western China, Steep Highs and Steep Lows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-15, Photography, Video and Visual Journalism:

The central peninsula area of Yuzhong District, between the Jialing River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south, is the most interesting and dynamic area of Chongqing.

2015, Fodor's China (Fodor's), 9th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 567:

Observing the results from the Route 3 implementation, one Yuzhong District senior government official believed that a similar project should be done to revitalize the heart of the central business district area, called Jiefangbei.

2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:

The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area! 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.

2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides), Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263:

Once you’ve been to Chongqing, it is hard to think of the city and not at the same time picture the beautiful mountains, and the majestic Yangtze River circumfloating the densely built Yuzhong Peninsula, only to absorb the waters of Jialing River just moments later.

2010, “Bigger Footprints”, in Asia Beyond Growth, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76, column 1:

The Yuzhong Peninsula, with a population of about 700,000 residents, has served as the business and historic center of the city (see Figure 1). Due to its mountainous landscape, walking has long been a necessary and popular mode of transportation within the center city.

2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 176:

A peninsula in Yuzhong district, Chongqing, China.


Yuzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榆中 (Yúzhōng).

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

In the Shanzhuang district of Yuzhong County in Gansu, the annual average per capita grain intake was only 20-50 kilograms, and of the 49 production teams in the whole district, 48 had an average per capita income of less than 40 yuan.

1991, Bochuan He, “Questions of Pace and Regional Development”, in China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development, China Books and Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

In May 1939 China’s Nationalist government, worried about the use Japan might make of the remains, ordered the most holy objects — the caskets of Chinggis, and Borte and of Qulan and the black four-footed standard — transported to a Taoist temple in Yuzhong county, Gansu.

2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Eight White Yurts”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164, column 2:

A directive from Yuzhong County in the northwestern province of Gansu declared, for example: “Since the abrupt changes in Tunisia and Egypt, Western forces hostile to China have been itching to do something and do their utmost to stir up a fuss.”

2011 April 8, Chris Buckley, Sui-Lee Wee, “Fear and swagger drive China's clampdown on dissent”, in John Chalmers, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-07-02, World News:

The official Weibo account of the Yuzhong Public Security Bureau in Lanzhou said that two police officers at the local Peace Police Station had “stopped working” and that the events were being investigated by the police and by other branches of government.

2016 May 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Accusations of Brutality Cast Harsh Light on Chinese Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-05-22, Asia Pacific:


Shapingba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沙坪垻 /沙坪坝 (Shāpíngbà).

The Institute is re-orienting its program and will endeavor to carry on its training and research along lines originally planned for, though modified by such exigencies as the present national crisis has brought forth. Communications with the Institute may be directed to Shapingpa, Chungking, China.

[1938 December, “Current Items”, in American Sociological Review, volume 3, number 6, American Sociological Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 879:

In the movement to criticize Lin and Confucius, they have seriously read Marxist-Leninist works and Chairman Mao's works. Little Red Soldiers of (Shapingpa) district of Chungking have studied the party's basic line, Chairman Mao's "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People" and 7 May directive, and the three main rules of discipline and eight points for attention.

[1974 June 4 [1974 May 31], “Szechwan Little Red Soldiers Join in Criticism of Lin, Confucius”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 108, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 1:

One day I called on a cousin of mine who teaches at the Chongqing Normal College, about 20 miles from downtown. The district, known as Shapingba, has a concentration of eight universities and colleges.

1979 May, Gerald Chen, “'Pilgrimage' to Sichuan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

The tragedy came during a promotion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the store in Shapingba district in southwest China.
People began queuing in the early hours of Saturday to buy the cooking oil, said Gao Chang, a spokesman for the Shapingba district government.

2007 November 10, “Three killed in stampede in China supermarket”, in Giles Elgood, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-25, World News:


Jiulongpo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 九龍坡 /九龙坡 (Jiǔlóngpō).

In February 2005 the developer appealed to the Jiulongpo District Housing Administration Bureau for permission to demolish the building.

2009, 申宏磊 [Sheng Honglei], “Link II: Chongqing's "Nail Household"”, in 李洋 [Li Yang] et al., transl., 新闻发布与阳光执政 [Press Release & Sunshine Government], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:

A store in the Jiulongpo district was caught by a local market regulator selling smoked tea ducks using the meat.

2011 March 12, Melanie Lee, “Wal-Mart apologizes for duck meat past expiry date in China”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-20, CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS:


Jiangjin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江津 (Jiāngjīn).

The CCP committee of (Langshan) commune in Chiangchin County has correctly handled the relationship between the CCP committee and revolutionary committee.

[1973 December 28 [1973 December 25], “Szechwan County Develops Party, Revolutionary Committees Relations”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 250, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 1:

The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.

2012 April 18, Michael Wines, “Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-04-19, Asia Pacific:


Dadukou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大渡口 (Dàdùkǒu).

Tatukow (alternative)
Ta-tu-k'ou (alternative)

A louse survey was made among students of primary schools and orphanages in the latter part of March, 1944, at Tatukou area outside Chungking. A total of 1,255 students were examined with 530 girls and 716 boys.[…]
For the sake of convenience, and because of the seriousness of the malaria situation in the area, Tatukou on the outskirts of Chungking was chosen as the site for demonstration.[…]
The survey was followed up by a study of the topography of Tatukou and disease-transmitting mosquitoes in the district.

[1944 November, “Public Health and Medicine”, in China Handbook 1937-1944, Chungking: Chinese Ministry of Information, →OCLC, page 404, column 2:

In the 1930s and 1940s, people from the same province tended to stick together in Chongqing. We moved to Dadukou, about twenty miles from the city, where many people from the Jiangxi Province lived during the war.

2010, Danke Li, Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:

Agile has bought a 119,287-square-metre parcel in Dadukou District at an auction to replenish its land bank in Chongqing, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late Tuesday.

2012 May 8, Alex Frew McMillan, “Agile buys site in Chongqing to replenish land bank”, in Ryan Woo, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

The unnamed burglar twisted his ankle while leaping from the third-floor balcony of a flat to a second-floor landing and then to the ground after a man living in the property in the Dadukou district of Chongqing came home while he was inside on Monday evening,[…]

2016 July 21, Natalie Mu, “Chinese burglary suspect ‘confesses’ after woman victim massages his injured ankle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-22, China:


Bishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 璧山 (Bìshān).

These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.

[1940, “Report of Work in China”, in The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1939, New York, page 363:

When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."

[1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:

The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

2018 December 18, Tom Daly, “China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-20, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:

In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.

2020, Namrata Goswami, Peter A. Garretson, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:


Yongchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永川 (Yǒngchuān).

I remember on a summer’s day in 1934 when father told me of his personal experiences as the magistrate of Yongchuan, a county west of Chongqing, in 1917.

1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:

“Don’t simplistically equate ‘nothing has gone wrong’ with ‘nothing will go wrong,’” the local security committee of Yongchuan District in southwest China said last year. “At every moment always act as if we’re walking on thin ice, as if on the edge of an abyss.”

2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, Amy Chang Chien, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-06, ASIA PACIFIC:


Rongchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榮昌 /荣昌 (Róngchāng).

The Szechuan people's struggle against the activities of the imperialist aggressors in the church had a long history.[…]The people who took part in the uprising, however, broke into the Jungchang County prison and released him.

[1964, Wu Yu-chang [吳玉章], “The Uprising Led by Yu Tung-chen and the Yi Ho Tuan Movement”, in The Revolution of 1911 [辛亥革命], 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 46-47:

Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.

2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Sinosphere:

A campus violence case was heard in the court of Rongchang District, Chongqing, in which a female student was beaten to Grade 10 disability by five roommates because she was untidy.

2021, Dongping Yang, “Toward Educational Modernization: Strengthening Institutions and Increasing Capacity”, in Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, volume 5, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:


Dazu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大足 (Dàzú).

Similarly there had been a break in the supply of small hardware from Tatsu county to its traditional markets in Tahsien, Mienyang, and Wenchiang, which was now restored as a result of the exchange fair.

[1967, Gargi Dutt, “Recent Developments, 1963-64”, in Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems, New York: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 174:

A new chapter in the study of Chinese sculpture in the Sung Dynasty opened with the discovery of the Mai-chi-shan caves already referred to and the publication of a little-known sculptured cliff at Ta-tsu in Szechwan, dating chiefly from the Sung. The lively realism of the Ta-tsu high relief figures, some of which resemble the clay figures at Mai-chi-shan, others reminiscent of mediaeval European sculpture, is further proof that beside the courtly and scholarly arts for which the Sung is famous there flourished a vigorous school of popular Buddhist art of a very different character.

[1973, Michael Sullivan, “Sung Dynasty (960-1279)”, in Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

The year 1898 brought uprisings of the Tien Ti Hui (Heaven and Earth Society), a popular anti-Ching secret organization in Kwangsi Province, and of the peasants in Tatsu County, Szechuan.

[1976, Compilation Group for the "History of Modern China" Series [《中国近代史丛书》编写组], “Unprecedented National Crisis”, in The Yi Ho Tuan Movement of 1900 [义和团运动], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 13:

Emei Shan is one of Buddhism’s four sacred mountains, while Baoding Shan (Precious Mountain) at Dazu is one of China’s four great centers of Buddhist sculpture. These sacred carvings are located in Sichuan Province in western China, in Dazu District, about halfway between the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing.

1998, J. D. Brown, Frommer's China: The 50 Most Memorable Trips (Frommer's), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:

Dazu District is located in the west of Chongqing, 55 km away from the central downtown of Chongqing in the east and 155 km away from Chengdu in the west. Dazu has been world-known for the world cultural heritage Dazu Rock Carvings.

2022 March 31, “A Creative Slogan Worths 100,000 Yuan - Dazu of Chongqing solicits promotional slogans from all over the world”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:


Tongliang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅梁 (Tóngliáng).

Because the hamlet was the home of one of the few priests in eastern Sichuan, Catholics from as far away as Chongqing and the neighboring districts of Yongchuan, Tongliang, He Zhou, and Fu Zhou came to the hamlet seeking Gu to receive sacraments and to participate in worship.[...]The Ma family had migrated to nearby Baxian, the Qius to Fu Zhou, and the Songs to Tongliang.

1996, Robert E. Entenmann, “Catholics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Sichuan”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 13, 21:

On April 1, 2008, the Tongliang county water authority in Chongqing, southwest China, approved Zhu Jiaping’s application for water usage.

2012, Jigang Zhou, Peng Guangcan, Ceng Zhen, “China's Water Crisis May Be Helped by Trading Water Rights”, in Noah Berlatsky, editor, Water, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

In 2020, Liu and his partner began painting walls free of charge and full of love and passion. Their first works were painted on the walls of an ancient town in Tongliang District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. In about three months, they finished seven mural paintings.

2022 April 8, “Muralists decorate countryside with creativity, passion”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-04-08:


Tongnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潼南 (Tóngnán).

A search and rescue operation was launched by the local authorities in Tongnan district, which continued through the night.

2020 June 22, “China: 8 children drown in river near Chongqing”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2020-06-22:

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Chongqing on Thursday morning to assess conditions, visiting the village of Shuangba in Tongnan district, where flooded fields and houses have affected the livelihood of more than 8,000 people there.

2020 August 20, Phoebe Zhang, “Chinese megacity Chongqing braces for record flood”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-20, People & Culture:

In April 2019, at China (Chongqing)-Hungary Automotive Innovation Forum, People's Government of Chongqing Tongnan District and Clive Industrial Design Co., Ltd. held the signing ceremony of “Intelligent Terminal Product Production Project", which was the implementation of the first industrialization project.

2021, 新阶段中国—中东欧国家合作：多维视角的分析 [The China-CEEC Cooperation at the New Stage : A Multi-Dimensional Analysis], China Social Sciences Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GGNgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT436:

The assessment of cultivated land ecological risk in Tongnan district of Chongqing city before and after the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization, as well as the analysis of the correlation between ecological risk and cultivated land slope, demonstrate that the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization can reduce cultivated land ecological risk, and the proportion of cultivated land slope can be an important basis for precision guidance in the farmland consolidation for agricultural mechanization.

2024 May, Zhang Xingshan [张星山], Yang Heng [杨恒], Ma Wenqiu [马雯秋], Yang Minli [杨敏丽], Wang Haiyi [王海翼], You Yong [尤泳], Hui Yunting [惠云婷], Gong Zeqi [宫泽奇], Wang Tianyi [王天一], “Ecological Risk Assessment of Cultivated Land Based on Landscape Pattern: A Case Study of Tongnan District, Chongqing [基于景观格局的丘陵山区耕地生态风险评价——以重庆市潼南区为例]”, in Smart Agriculture [智慧农业（中英文）], volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68:


Hechuan

Translingual: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 合川 (Héchuān).

"Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads.

[1941, Anor Lin, “Sung Dugout”, in Dawn Over Chungking, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 87:

On September 12, a man named Xiao Gang (pseudonym) was walking along BinjiangLu in Hechuan District, Chongqing when he was suddenly grabbed and forced into an abandoned home on the side of the road and sexually assaulted by Xiao Yong (pseudonym).

2014 October 10, Yang Xin, “Outcry as Rapist Walks Free”, in Beijing Today, number 696, →OCLC, page 1:

China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd :
* Says it signs MoU with Chongqing Hechuan district government and Kunshan Bacheng government

2017 April 7, “BRIEF-China Fortune Land Development signs MoU with local governments”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-16:


Beibei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北碚 (Běibèi).

2. Szechwan, Peipei, a town north of Chungking, has been selected as a model district for the creation of independent farmers. With the cooperation of the Municipal Bureau of Peipei, land survey has been completed and plans have been made for the establishment of farm units to be given to the farmers after the completion of procedures for land expropriation.

[1943, The Chinese Ministry of Information, “Agricultural Economy”, in Hollington Tong, editor, China Handbook 1937–1943: A Comprehensive Survey of Major Developments in China in Six Years of War, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 619, columns 1–2:

Jinyun Mountain Scenic Area is located along the banks of the Jialang River at Wentang Gorge in the Beibei District, 37 miles from downtown Chongqing.

2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:

Mao Jianping, the deputy director of the municipal procuratorate, and Zhao Wenrui, the head of the Beibei district, were detained at the same time on suspicion of conspiring to protect Chongqing’s network of gangsters.

2012, Andrew Wedeman, Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 169:

Late last year, graphic video footage of the party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district in a rendezvous with a young woman was widely circulated on the Chinese internet. The official, Lei Zhengfu, was later sacked.

2013 January 25, Lucy Hornby, “China busts sex video blackmailers who targeted officials”, in Jon Hemming, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-22, World News:

On May 16, 2013, the government in Xiema Town in Beibei District, Chongqing, had over 100 police officers forcibly demolish my home. My mother was injured so badly that she’s now in the hospital.

2013 June 16, Flourishing Musical Goddess_76635, quotee, “Chinese Voice Anger and Nostalgia Over Urbanization”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-11, Asia Pacific:


Ankang

The Shensi Provincial Government has approved the plan of its Provincial Department of Reconstruction for the building of a highway to connect Sian city with Tsoshui, Chen-an and Ankang, in southeastern Shensi and another road from Shang-hsien past Ankang to link up with the Sian-Chingtsukwan and Hanyin-Paiho Highways. Survey work is to be started soon.

1934 August 11, The China Weekly Review, volume 69, number 11, →OCLC, page 432, column 2:

The Han Shui valley in the extreme south, with the subregional towns of Hanchung and Ankang, and the entire northern section of Shensi remain without rail transportation.

1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:

Hornet attacks have been reported elsewhere in China as well. Last month, a swarm attacked a primary school in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China, injuring 30 people, including 23 children. But the most serious attacks, according to the state-run news media, have taken place in rural areas near Ankang City, in the southeastern part of Shaanxi Province.

2013 October 3, “Giant Hornets Kill Dozens in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-06, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.


Zhenping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮平 /镇平 (Zhènpíng).

HONAN NEW COOKING STOVE--Scores of new-type cooking stoves have been introduced into rural Honan Province. The new stoves, as compared with the old ones, generally save about 50 percent on such fuels as coal, firewood, and hay. There had been a shortage of firewood and hay in Chenping County, which has now become self-sufficient in these fuels since 83 percent of the rural families began to use the new stoves.

[1972, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:


Zhenping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮坪 /镇坪 (Zhènpíng).

China has succeeded in domesticating musk deer and obtaining the musk while the animal is alive. The Forestry Bureau in western Szechwan Province and a musk-deer farm in Chenping county, Shensi Province, have achieved this.

[1972 August 17 [1972 August 6], “Musk Production”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China, volume I, number 161, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page B 4:


Pingli

Teng said a large number of Communists were striking westward from Sian, capital of Shensi province. He added the Nationalists had lost Pingli in southern Shensi after a battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties.

1949 July 14, “China Official Swears 'Win All Lose All' Fight”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 30.24-4383:

In Pingli County, Shaanxi Province, China, the Badao bone coal contains 41 to 75 ppm of selenium, with a mean concentration of 57.5 ppm.[…]The local environment in Pingli County was found to contain soil with a mean concentration of 0.3 to 1.1 ppm selenium, and agricultural crops with concentration of 0.57 to 2.75 ppm selenium (Fang and others, 2003).

2017, Critical Mineral Resources of the United States: Economic and Environmental Geology and Prospects for Future Supply, number 1802, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 028, column 1:


Langao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 嵐皋／岚皋.

Distribution and habitat. Coniogramme bashanensis known only from Langao County in Shaanxi Province, China. Langao County is located in the middle of the northern slope of Mt. Bashan.

2013 May 24, Xiao-si Guo, Jian-ping Chen, “Coniogramme bashanensis (Pteridaceae), a New Fern Species from Shaanxi, China”, in Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 292:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network
* Says it signs e-commerce cooperation agreement Langao County govt, Shaanxi Province

2016 May 29, “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network signs e-commerce cooperation agreement with govt”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, Broadcasting:


Baihe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白河 (Báihé).

There is a navigable tributary of the Han, the Chiaho (甲河) which joins it at Paihohsien (白河縣) where the Shensi customs barrier for the Han is situated, considerably west of Laohokʻou.

[(Can we date this quote?), Hsian, Past and Present, sourced from North-China Daily News, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

Another time, some youths in the village had gone down the Han River to Gourd Town, Baihe County and on to the city of Xiangyang, and come back with trousers that were tight at the waist and wide at the bottom, which made them seem instantly taller.

1991, Pingwa Jia, “Touch Paper”, in The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

Between March 4 and April 11 of 1997, 98 migrant workers from Baihe County in Shanxi Province were killed in three different coal mining accidents. According to Baihe County government figures , up to 22,000 rural residents have left home each year for work in the years since 1994.

2004, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, editors, Private and Public Corruption, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:


Xunyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旬陽 /旬阳.

In (Chialu) commune, Hsunyang County, the summer grain procurement quota has been overfulfilled. In addition, 66 production teams in the commune have put grain aside for reserves.

[1971 July 15 [1971 July 13], “Shensi Peasants Fulfill Farm Procurement Quotas”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

Minghsing Brigade of Changsha Commune in Hsunyang County, Shensi Province, has encouraged amateur literary and art activities for about a decade.

[1973, “New Upsurge of Mass Literature and Art”, in Chinese Literature, number 7, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 104:

Local authorities sometimes are brutal in their efforts to crush the underground Christian church in peasant areas. In March 1993, for example, police attacked a religious meeting in Taoyuan village in Shaanxi Province’s Xunyang County.

1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 475:

Streets and buildings were submerged by floodwaters in Xunyang in northwestern China on September 28, 2021, after heavy torrential rains lashed the area in Shaanxi province. Firefighters and army troops have been helping as more than 7,000 people were forced to evacuate. Xunyang is home to about 450,000 residents.

2021 September 29, Carol Mang, “More than 7,000 people forced to flee floods in city of Xunyang in northwestern China”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2021-09-30:

A county-level city of Ankang, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.


Hanbin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 漢濱 /汉滨.

Shaanxi's Huazhang Daily newspaper said the wasps had been attacking people in the Ankang region since 2002. Hundreds had been stung and at least 30 had died.
Local police and firemen teams are being deployed to track and destroy the pests, but no significant improvement had been made because there were no wasp experts in the region, the newspaper said.
Some people said the problem was worse this year. In the Hanbin district alone this year, five villagers have been killed by the wasps, while the number of hives has increased from one in 2002 to more than 40 this year.

2005 November 1, Minnie Chan, “Wasp attacks kill 10 farmers in Shaanxi”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-18:

The second evaluation also looked at NCMS payment reform and took place in the Hanbin District of Shaanxi Province. In 2010, Hanbin District launched a reform of NCMS payment methods, replacing the fee-for-service with prospective payment with a global budget for outpatient care and mixed payment methods for inpatient care.

2017, Mo Yu, Xiaoyan He, Yunxin Hou, Xue Li, “Lessons Learned from Evaluating China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme”, in Building Capacities to Evaluate Health Inequities: Some Lessons Learned from Evaluation Experiments in China, India and Chile, number 154, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

Finally, the regional green poverty reduction effect was divided by the method of inter group connection and Chebyshev distance, to directly display the green poverty reduction effect of counties in southern Shaanxi. The results showed there was only Hanbin district as the dominant area for poverty alleviation and development, Zhenba County was the dominant area for economic and green development, and the other counties were all under the pressure of green development. Overall, the effect of green poverty reduction in southern Shaanxi was still not ideal.

2020, Yingjuan Yang, Huifeng Xue, “Evaluation of Green Poverty Reduction in Southern Shaanxi Based on Comprehensive Weighting TOPSIS-Clustering Analysis”, in 2020 16th Dahe Fortune China Forum and Chinese High-educational Management Annual Academic Conference (DFHMC), →DOI, page 128:

The Hanbin district police department in Shaanxi's Ankang city said on May 19 that it had fined a local man 500 yuan for scaling the Great Firewall, a complex systems of blocks, filters and human censorship that limits what Chinese users can see online.

2020 May 21, Gao Feng, “Fine For VPN Use Sparks Rare Backlash on Chinese Internet”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2020-05-21:


Hanyin

Hanyin T'ing, now called Hanyin Hsien, a third class district, is a prosperous little place lying at the head of the fertile Yo River valley, and, like most of the Han basin towns, is more like a Szechuan than a Shensi city.

1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 33:

Shensi fungi first goes to Hanyin (漢陰) and is then shipped to Hankow;[...]

1934 March 17, “Export of Edible Fungus From Szechuan”, in Chinese Economic Bulletin, volume XXIV, number 11, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, →OCLC, pages 170–171:

Cadre Zhao Jianguo, who came to Hanyin County, Shaanxi, from Jiangsu Province, had formerly been the head of a certain township in Zhangjiagang City. As a go-between in building a bridge between the two localities, he had 295 technical cadres and workers of Hanyin County go to Zhangjiagang City for study and training.

1992 March 6 [1991 October 21], Cui Zhongshan (1508 1350 1472), “Supplementing Others Where One's Own Superiority Allows—Interchange Between the Cadres of Jiangsu and Shaanxi Stimulate Economic Development in Both Provinces”, in JPRS Report China, number 92-011, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xi'an SHAANXI RIBAO p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 52, column 2:

Tang Xiaodong, 41, a jewellery dealer from Hanyin county in Shaanxi province, has been on a police wanted list since October 7 for his alleged role in “illegally absorbing” more than 180 million yuan for a “jewellery town” project in the small city of Ankang.
Police in Hanyin are offering the reward for information or assistance leading to Tang’s arrest, according to a public notice.

2019 June 6, Pinghui Zhuang, “Reward: US$145,000 offered to track down Chinese ‘jewellery town’ fugitive”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-06, Society:


Shiquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石泉.

This silkworm was found in 1985 in Shiquan County. It is 2.2 inches long, with a nine-jointed body. Its head is raised as if it were spinning silk. Shiquan County being a major producer, the silk industry prospered during the Han dynasty, and gilding techniques were also developed.

1991 [1987], Zongxu (鄒宗緒) Zou, “The Heart of a Powerful Empire”, in Susan Whitfield, transl., The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

However, last June a police station in Shiquan county in Ankang, in Shaanxi, received a tip-off regarding the whereabouts of Ruixiang.

2017 January 24, Mimi Lau, “Chinese sisters, abducted as teens, reunited with mother after 28 years”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-25, Society:


都昌

/toʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/

/toʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tou̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/

(～縣) Duchang (a county of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China)


Ningshan

Ning-shan (alternative)
Ningshaan (alternative)

Sian, Shensi provincial service 13. 00 GMT 11.2.71
[...]The poor and lower-middle peasants and masses in Ningshan County overcame "calamities" [no details given] and scored bumper agricultural harvests last year.

1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route.

1973, Jen Yu-wen, “Second Northern Expedition (1861-1868)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 473:

The tiny village of Zhongxi in Ningshan County sat high up in the mountains, miles from anywhere.

2004, Tim Clissold, Mr. China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

A man trekked for 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the Qinling mountain range from the Xi’an airport, avoiding multiple village checkpoints on the way before he was finally spotted and taken into quarantine on December 24, eight days into his journey, according to a statement from the Ningshan county police.

2022 January 4, Nectar Gan, Steve George, “Outcry over Xi’an lockdown tests limits of China’s zero-Covid policy”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-01-03:


Foping

In (Changchiaho) brigade in Foping County, over 140,000 catties of grain have been stored up so far. Granaries have been built in every brigade in the commune.

1969 December 3 [1969 December 2], “Shensi Grain Reserves”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 233, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

In Shaanxi Province there is one special nature reserve for them at Foping County, southwest of Xi'an and not far from the Qinling Ibis Colony.

1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

A giant panda has been filmed for the first time in the wild breastfeeding a cub, according to state television.
The behaviour was filmed by a local TV crew in Foping county in Shaanxi province, CCTV said.

2017 April 5, Stephen Chen, “Panda filmed for first time breastfeeding cub in wild, says China state TV”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-05, China:

Nine wild boar samples submitted by the provincial forestry bureau were examined and three from Foping county, in the south of Shaanxi, tested positive for the disease, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.

2019 December 11, Tom Daly, “China finds African swine fever in wild boar in Shaanxi”, in Susan Fenton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-12-11, Health News:


Zhenba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮巴 /镇巴 (Zhènbā).

Education in a Chenpa County Commune (Sian)[…]
(Paho) commune, in Chenpa County, now has 250 per cent more full-time primary schools than before the cultural revolution.

[1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages A-14, 21:

Zhenba County in Shaanxi Province once had a forest cover rate of 60 percent, and floods, droughts and hail were rare. Later, however, many trees were cut down to clear the land for farming when the county started to place a one-sided emphasis on grain production.

1985, “Rural Economic Policy in the New Period”, in Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in Rural China] (China Studies Series), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 117:

A report on the county of Zhenba described the redistribution in these terms: 16 townships, each having 10 landlords and 100 poor peasants; each landlord owning 111 mu and therefore each poor peasant receiving nearly 2 mu.

1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 238–239:


Xixiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西鄉 /西乡.

Shensi has a complicated terrain, characterized by an ascending trend from south to north. The Ta Pa Shan range rises in the south, on the Szechwan-Shensi border. Its highest peak, Pa Shan, rises to 9,843 ft., near Sisiang County.

[1965, Alfred C. Tan, “SHENSI”, in Collier's Encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index, volume 20, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 670, column 2:

By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site in Hsi-hsiang county, Shensi, on the southern side of the Ch’in-ling Mountain.

[1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

Established in 1952, the Communist Party branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Shensi Province, now has 22 members. All of them have joined local mutual-aid and co-operative organizations in which they play the role of backbone and pace-setters.

[1978 [1955 July 6], “The Party Branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Gives Correct Leadership to Mutual Aid and Co-operation”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 214:

中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

Huashang Daily investigated the local budget of Xixiang County in Hanzhong, Shanxi province in 2009 to learn about the effects of school merging. “The mergers saved the county almost 500 million yuan over the next 30 years,” it wrote.

2015 February 13, Yang Xin, “Students Left to Suffer Even as School Mergings End”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 6:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group Co.,Ltd.:
* Says it signs cooperation agreement with Xixiang County People’s Government, to undertake digital cable television, radio and television broadband construction project

2016 August 9, “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group signs agreement”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-07, TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS:


Chenggu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城固.

Zhang Qian, buried in his home town in Chenggu County, was the first envoy in Chinese history to visit the western regions and thus form the initial link between China and her western neighbours.

1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:

The policy-making officials in the war capital of Chung-king had decided to relocate the Northwestern Teachers’ College from Ch’êng-ku county, southern Shênsi province, to Shih-li-tien, literally Ten-miles-distanced store, a suburb of the city of Lanchou, Kansu province.

[2002, Chu Yin-tsung McIntyre, The Snow Storm Over Temple Ta-er, Pittsburg, Penn.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:

Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwester province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007.

2007 September 3, “Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, World News:


Liuba

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 留壩 /留坝 (Liúbà).

The initial motivation to go on a pilgrimage is also often twofold: one cannot pass Hanzhong without going to the Zhangliangmiao in Liuba County, and it is good to go to a holy place if one has a sick mother or a child of marriageable age.

2013, Adeline Herrou, translated by Livia Kohn, A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China, Three Pines Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:

On arriving in Hanzhong, Yongbao rushed into the Qinling Mountains to fight Zhang Hanchao.[…]When the two met at the seat of Liuba county after the battle, they quarreled bitterly: Yongbao accused Mingliang of not having come to his rescue sooner, and Mingliang blamed Yongbao for being defeated by the rebels.

2019, Yingcong Dai, “Mingliang's Fall and Nayancheng's Debut at the War Front”, in The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:


Hantai

Qi Jianwen, the chief inspector of the Hanzhong Public Security Bureau and head of its party discipline committee, personally met with police in Hantai District, who reportedly issued a decision on November 4 to revoke the residential surveillance order against Han, stating that the 'investigation had concluded' (Huashang News, 2009; Zhou Ze, 2009).

2013, Joshua D. Rosenzweig, “Resolving the 'endless narrative': criminal defamation and expression rights in China”, in Mike McConville, Eva Pils, editors, Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, sourced from Huashang News (2009), “Twists and Turns in Hanzhong Defamation Case’ [Yibo sanzhe de hanzhong ‘feibang’an’), Huashang News [Huashang Bao], 12 August, available at http://hsb.hsw.cn/2009-08/12/content_7421548.htm (accessed 1 April 2011).; Zhou, Ze (2009), ‘After Filing Appeal, Defendant in Hanzhong “Internet Defamation Case” Mysteriously Withdraws It’ [Hanzhong ‘wangluo feibang’an’ beigao shangsu hou qiqiao chesu], in Zhou Ze Discusses Cases and Explains the Law (blog), 8 December, available at http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4bdb1fa00100gnth.html (accessed 30 March 2011)., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 380–381:

Tourists play in the flower field in Xujiaying village of Laojun town in Hantai district of Hanzhong city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, March 23, 2018.

2018 March 24, “People enjoy blossoms across China”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

In April 2010 he was appointed pastor of West Street Cathedral, in the Hantai district. In December 2015 he became a member of the Catholic Provincial Committee ("the two sessions": Patriotic Association and Council of Bishops).
In 2012, and in 2017, he was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Consultative Political Conference in the district of Ren Hantai. On 11 April 2019, he was chosen as bishop of the Diocese of Hanzhong.

2019 August 28, “China, second bishop consecrated under Sino-Holy See agreement”, in Vatican News, archived from the original on 2019-09-15:

It is unknown how the mechanism of land use affects the landscape pattern at different scales. The Hantai District, a typical human settlement in the mountain area in Shaanxi, China, was chosen as the study area.

2021 February 20, Lei Wang, Lian Wu, Wei Zhang, “Impacts of land use change on landscape patterns in mountain human settlement: The case study of Hantai District (Shaanxi, China)”, in Journal of Mountain Science, volume 18, →DOI, archived from the original on 2022-02-01:


Nanzheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南鄭 /南郑.

The Shensi Provincial CCP Committee recently issued a circular on its decision to take disciplinary action against (Tung Han-lu), deputy director of the Nancheng County Culture and Education Bureau, for making mistakes in student enrollment.

[1978 February 2 [1978 January 31], “Shensi CCP Committee Denounces Mistakes in Student Enrollment”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 23, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 4:

In November a district of Nanzheng County set a fixed increase in family income as an "economic prerequisite" for only-daughter families seeking permission to have a second child.

1990, John S. Aird, Slaughter of the Innocents: Coercive Birth Control in China, Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 181:

The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City.

2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-05-16:

Eleven children were wounded in the attack soon after the school day started in Nanzheng county, a rural corner of Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

2021 March 19, Chris Buckley, Huang Yan, “Nine killed in latest China school rampage”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-07, World News:


Ningqiang

/ˌnɪŋˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧強 /宁强.

The troops of the ambitious Ch’in widened the old road which ran through the mountainous region, leading from the modern city of Ning-ch’iang 甯羌 in Shensi, into the Red Basin, by way of the modern cities of Kuang-yüan 廣元, Chao-hua 昭化 and Chien-ko 劍閣 in Szechwan.

[1967, Chêng Tê-k’un, “Outline of the Study: Geographical and Historical Background”, in Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 9:

The poorly fossiliferous lower redbeds of the Yangtze Platform Silurian sequence, the Rongxi Formation, have long presented a serious correlation problem. However, with the discovery in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi, that the laterally- equivalent Wangjiawan Formation contains a useful graptolitic and shelly fauna, this problem has been satisfactorily resolved.

1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15, column 2:

The latest fatality occurred in Ningqiang County, in Shaanxi Province, where a 5.6-magnitude quake struck at 3:54 a.m. The two other quakes followed, with the last being the strongest, at a magnitude of 6.0, at the juncture of Ningqiang County and Qingchuan County, in Sichuan Province.

2008 July 25, Edward Wong, “China: 3 Quakes Rattle Western Region, Killing One”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-25, Asia Pacific:

The development in tourism industry also promoted regional economic transformation and development. Located in Qinling-Bashan Mountains, Ningshaan County in Ankang has 28 tourism projects under construction at present with total investment of RMB 38 billion yuan. “In the past decade, the proportion of tourism revenue to GDP in Ningqiang County has increased from less than 3% to more than 20% and tourism industry has become a pillar industry.” said Lv Xuanqiang, Director of Tourism Administration of NingShaan County.

2017 May 12, “Shaanxi “Happiness Industry” as a New Way to Enrich the People and Develop the Province”, in The Government Website of Shaanxi Province, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:


Lüeyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 略陽 /略阳 (Lüèyáng).

Luehyang (alternative)
Lueyang (alternative)
Lveyang (alternative)

Fu Lang's ancestral home was Linwei (臨渭) in Lüeyang (略陽) commandery (northeast of modern Tianshui (天水), Gansu).

2010, Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature, volume I, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

Xingzhou was more than five hundred kilometers northeast of Chengdu, in modern Lüeyang 略陽 county, across today's border with Shaanxi.

2019, Franciscus Verellen, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:


Weibin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 渭濱 /渭滨.

In order to research into quantitative risk assessment technique for multi-surface potential landslide, taking Xiayahe landslide which has four potential sliding surfaces in Weibin District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province as an example, based on large scale(1:10000) field survey, geotechnical exploration, indoor analytic research and by using international single landslide risk calculation formula, fundamental characteristic and fatalness of Xiayahe landslide were briefly described and potential harmfulness, influence scope of every different potential sliding surface , time-spatial probability, vulnerability and risk were deeply researched.

2009, He Shu-jun, Zhang Chun-shan, Chen Zhi-hua, Wu Shu-ren, Xin Peng, Ye Si-yuan, “Risk evaluation for Xiayahe landslide in Weibin District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, China”, in Geological Bulletin of China, volume 28, number 08, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-09:

(2) Highly adaptable areas include economically developed areas such as Weibin District and Jintai District. (3) High-vulnerability areas are Taibai County and Qianyang County. The higher vulnerability areas are Jixian, Linyou, Daishan, and Fufeng, the medium-fragile areas are the Chencang District and Fengxiang County, and the low-vulnerability areas are the Jintai District, Weibin District, Meixian County, and Feng County. Overall, the high-fragility areas of agricultural floods in Baoji City are concentrated in the northeastern part of the county.

2019, Xu Yu-xia [徐玉霞], Xu Xiao-ming [许小明], Fang Feng [方峰], He Rui [贺锐], “Assessment and zoning of vulnerability of agricultural flood disaster in Baoji City based on county scale [县域尺度下的宝鸡市农业洪水灾害脆弱性评价及区划]”, in Arid Land Geography [干旱区地理], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:

Similarly, the government-approved Buddhist Association of Weibin District, Baoji City, Shanxi Province, order in May 2019 carried a prohibition on the spread of Tibetan Buddhism into the district. Document no. 2 (appended at the end of this report) obtained by the International Campaign for Tibet strictly prohibited Chinese Buddhist temples in Weibin district from inviting religious figures of Tibetan Buddhism or displaying physical attributes of Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese Buddhist temples.

2022 January 20, “Containing the “eastward movement of Tibetan mysticism”: Targeting Chinese Buddhist practitioners at Larung Gar Academy”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 2022-01-20:


Weibin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衛濱 /卫滨.


Jintai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金台 (Jīntái).

Among the 922 cases investigated as listed in Table 5, 43.28 percent had second births within two years, and 67.03 percent within three years. And those who had second births when their first born children were only one year old accounted for 15.47 percent in Yang County, 30 percent in Yanchuan County, 15.68 percent in Mizhi County, and 20.41 percent in Jintai District of Baoji.

1986, Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey, with Analysis, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 353:

In Baoji Prefecture, Fengxiang, Qishan, Longxian, Qianyang, Meixian and Linyou counties as well as the Jintai and Weibin districts of Baoji City all hold large and small spring welcoming carnivals after the Spring Festival.

1997 January, Shi Baoxiu, “Celebrating Spring and the New Year - the Traditional Way”, in China Tourism, number 198, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23:

In this category, there is also Donglingcun 东岭村, a village of the Chencang Town 陈仓镇 of Jintai District 金台区 of Baoji 宝鸡 City of Shaanxi 陕西 Province which is a replica of Huaxicun in western China.

2015, Tan Chung, Himalaya Calling: The Origins of China and India, World Century Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 311:

The construction of a Three-Self church on Shengli Road in the Jintai district of Baoji city, in the northern province of Shaanxi, was funded by believers. Its Western architectural style gave it an impressive appearance; but not anymore: on April 2, local authorities started the demolition of the church.

2019 July 5, Zhou Xiaolu, “Over 100 Believers Pressured to Agree to Church Demolition”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 2019-12-02:

Prior to the Experimental Zones, Jintai District of Baoji City in Shaanxi Province became a pilot zone for the scheme.[…]
Zhang Hongsheng is a villager in Dahuashu^([sic – meaning Dahuaishu]) Village in Panlong Town of Jintai District. When his son was due to marry, he was prepared for a big operation.

2021 April 12, Frank Hossack, “Vulgar Marriage Customs to be Outlawed by Nanjing District”, in The Nanjinger, SinoConnexion Ltd., archived from the original on 2021-04-12:


Chencang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陳倉 /陈仓 (Chéncāng).

Ch’en-ts'ang, an ancient name for Tang Feng-hsiang, the modern Pao-chi (Precious Pheasant) county, Shensi. The name derives from the story Wei alludes to: In ancient times, Duke Wen of Ch'in was hunting at Ch'en-ts’ang and encountered the magic bird on the north slope of Ch'en-ts'ang Mountain. It seemed like a stone and was the color of liver. When he returned, he sacrificed to it. It was thought to come from the southeast and possessed a voice like thunder which made all the wild pheasants call.

[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:

A gold tiger fitting from Weijiaya, Chencang District, Baoji City, dating to the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), has decorative spirals on its haunches very much like many of the animals found in Early La Tène contexts—the dogs on the rim of the Basse-Yutz flagons and the hybrid creature on the lid of the jug in Grave 2 at the Glauberg, for example.

2012, Peter S. Wells, “Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns”, in How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 204:

The main objective of this study was to apply a statistical (information value) model using geographic information system (GIS) to the Chencang District of Baoji, China.

2014 March 27, Wei Chen et al., “Landslide susceptibility mapping based on GIS and information value model for the Chencang District of Baoji, China”, in Arabian Journal of Geosciences, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC:

He Zun, an early Western Zhou bronze vessel was unearthed from Jiacun Town, Baoji prefecture in Shaanxi Province (now known as Chencang District of Baoji) in 1963.

2022, Qingzhu Liu, “Archaeological Discoveries and Studies About the Ancient Capitals”, in Jing He, transl., A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation, Springer, Sichuan People's Publishing House, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 216:


Qianyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 千陽 /千阳 (Qiānyáng)／汧陽／汧阳.

Chienyang County, Shensi, has since last winter completed more than 50 water conservancy projects, including 14 reservoirs, increasing its irrigated area by over 65,000 mou.

[1971 August 20 [1971 August 14], “Shensi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.

[1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗

In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.

1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58–59:


Fengxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鳳翔 /凤翔 (Fèngxiáng).

In the verandah on the north side of the Ta Ch’eng Men (Gate of Great Perfection) which leads to the main enclosure, there used to stand ten drum-shaped blocks of black granite, the famous “STONE DRUMS."[…]
About seven miles south of Fenghsiang, in the province of Shensi, is a place still called Shih Ku Yuan (Stone Drums’ Origin) which is probably the spot where they were first hewn out.

[1935, L. C. Arlington, “The Temple of Confucius and the Lama Temple”, in In Search of Old Peking, published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

A wealthy Chinese Christian in Shensi, planning to move to the safety of Szechuan province, now offered to lend the Bible School some larger premises he owned in Paoki, a city at the end of the railway line to the south west of Fengsiang. They therefore gladly moved from their crowded quarters, leaving the Fishers alone in the Fengsiang compound.

[1986, Dorothy R. Pape, “The Red Grip Tightens”, in Go for it!, Burlington, Ontario: Welch Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89-90:

"Archeologists drew almost a complete blank in their search of the inner tomb," the official New China News Agency said Saturday in a report of excavations at the tomb site, thought to be between 2,200 and 2,800 years old. The site is in Fengxiang County of Shaanxi Province, about 90 miles west of the ancient Yellow River capital of Xian.

1986 June 16, “CHINESE TOMB FOUND TO BE VICTIM OF GRAVE ROBBERS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, B, page 10:

The lead and zinc smelter in Changqing in Fengxiang county, close to Baoji city in Shaanxi province, has about 33,000 tonnes of annual lead capacity and 66,000 tonnes of zinc capacity.[…]
The incident in Fengxiang county also caused authorities to tighten controls and checks on lead smelters nationwide and close three smelting facilities in Jiyuan city in neighbouring Henan province, the top producing area in China, which is the world's top maker of metal widely used in batteries.

2010 March 12, Polly Yam, “China Dongling to reopen lead/zinc plant this month”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters, sourced from HONG KONG, archived from the original on 2010-11-15:


Linyou

In recent years, important evidence has come to light about a detached palace of the Sui and Tang. Known as Renshougong during the Sui dynasty and as Jiuchenggong in Tang times, its remains lie in Linyou county of Shaanxi province, about 163 kilometers from the capital Daxing-Chang’an.

2002, Xinian Fu, “The Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:

In April 639 the Emperor was staying in Jiucheng Palace (in Linyou, Shaanxi Province, which is one hundred and sixty kilometers northwest to Chang'an).

2013, Hing Ming Hung, Li Shi Min, Founding the Tang Dynasty: The Strategies that, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 161:


Qishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岐山 (Qíshān).

In one village in Chi-shan county . . . the village chief bought his son a wife with money be got by selling a cow and two huts.

[1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 211:

In 1977 a large body of fragments of Chou dynasty oracle bone inscriptions was discovered at Chi-shan county in Shensi province.

[1985, Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 424-425:

The Mao Kung Ting was unearthed in Chi Shan County, Shensi Province around 1848. Chi Shan, located 75 miles west of Sian, is also located forty-five miles beyond the site of the famous 1974 discovery of the army of 6,000 clay figures which guarded the grave of Emperor Chʻin Shih Huang Ti.

[1989, Edward Seu Chen Mau, “The Past as Prologue”, in The Mau Lineage, Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese History Center, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).

2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:

A quilt factory in Shaanxi's Qishan county was caught using juvenile workers who were forced to work 12 hours a day without pay for nearly six months.

2007 July 8, “Unpaid boys working in harsh conditions at Shaanxi factory”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:


Taibai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 太白 (Tàibái).

During the Cultural Revolution, Taipai County built 44 roads, increasing the length of motorable road by 360 kilometers.

[1974 June 6 [1974 June 1], “Briefs: Shensi County Road-Building”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 110, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:

By 1969, Jia Qianrui and Hong Youdao initiated the relocation of the 22 Base’s central nuclear warhead storage functions to Taibai County, Shaanxi Province.
A number of factors may have led to the move. First, Taibai County may have been designated as the ultimate location of China’s nuclear weapons stockpile as early as 1958. Taibai County had been identified as a candidate reserve storage site in the 1958 survey, and this may have been a factor in the establishment of Taibai County in the early-1960s.

2013 July, Mark A. Stokes, “Securing Nuclear Arsenals: A Chinese Case Study”, in Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?, Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 71–72:


Zhouzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周至 (zhōuzhì).

Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.

[1976, Leslie T. C. Kuo, Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:

The Chouchih County CCP Committee has once again organized 190,000 people to go in for harnessing the Wei River.

[1978 January 25 [1978 January 17], “Shensi Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2:

The Lao River lies to the south-west of Xian within Zhouzhi and Huxian Counties.

1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

More than 100 taxi drivers who crowded a town square in Zhouzhi county, in northwestern Shaanxi province, went back to work on Tuesday after authorities promised to crack down on unlicensed cabs, the Beijing News said.

2008 November 25, Ian Ransom, “Cabbies in two Chinese cities call off strikes”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-10, Latest Crisis:


Zhouzhi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).

This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.

2010, Tian Yuan Tan, Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

A former name for a county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.


Huyi

In Shijing town in Xi’an’s Huyi district, authorities tore down a Catholic church at the end of December, sparking a protest by around 300 church followers who gathered later in front of district government offices with banners calling for the right to religious freedom, local sources said.

2018 January 8, Qiao Long, Richard Finney, “Chinese Authorities Demolish One Church, Close Another, in December”, in Chen Ping, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2018-01-09:

To improve our understanding of PTE accumulation in peripheral areas of cities, soil samples from different parts of Huyi District, Xi’an city were collected, and the concentrations of As, Pb, V, Cr, Cu, Mn, Co, and Zn were determined through X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.

2021 August 23, Xiuduan Chen, Xinwei Lu, “Contamination characteristics and source apportionment of potentially toxic elements in the topsoil of Huyi District, Xi’an City, China”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 80, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

I want to put into relief here one single aspect of that which creates the abyss between us and the villagers of Huxian⁴: Chinese women, the Chinese family, their tradition, their present revolution.

2022, Kerry Brown, Gemma Chenger Deng, “Feminine China: Julia Kristeva”, in China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter, World Scientific, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:


Yanta

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.

It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.

2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:

It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night.[…]
FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District.[…]
The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a black Brilliance.

2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:

On Sunday, Xi'an announced that two senior Communist Party officials from the Yanta district had been removed from their posts, according to local media, in a bid to "strengthen the work of epidemic prevention and control" in the area.

2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2022-01-03:

Officials have been put on notice that they will lose their jobs if they don’t bring the numbers of new cases down. Already, the top two Communist Party officials in Yanta district, where half the city’s cases have been recorded, have been sacked and the deputy mayor placed in charge.

2022 January 4, Ken Moritsugu, “Conditions hard for 13 million under China virus lockdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-01-04:


Beilin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北林 (Běilín).

The Chinese state news media identified the man as the deputy director of a government poverty alleviation agency in the Beilin district of Suihua, a city in Heilongjiang Province.[…]
Government offices in the city of Suihua and the district of Beilin, as well as the Beilin district police, did not respond to requests for comment.

2021 April 14, Tiffany May, “Her Boss Sent Harassing Texts. So She Beat Him With a Mop.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-14, Asia Pacific:

A district of Suihua, Heilongjiang, China.


Beilin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碑林 (Bēilín).

Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu. The vibrant Beilin District comprises the core downtown area within the city wall and some territory east and south of it. Beilin has more than it: fair share of ancient sites, but it's modern as well, home to upscale malls high-end hotels, and 17 universities.

2006, Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:

A gathering place for intellectuals in the past, the antique bookstore located in Xi’an’s Beilin District has become a part of the life of some old local residents and an almost spiritual place among intellectuals. Covering about 900 square meters, the bookstore also collects and preserves old books.

2020 October 14, Information Office of Xi'an Municipal Government, “A city steeped in literary tradition is writing a new chapter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-22, #Paid Content: