Zhuozhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涿州 (Zhuōzhōu).

On June 4 the Boxers set fire to the Huangts’un station of the Peking-Tientsin Railway. General Nieh Shih-ch’êng’s troops promptly arrived, and a pitched battle was fought in which several hundred Boxers were killed.³⁵ On the 6th it was reported that railway communication between Peking and Tientsin was interrupted.³⁶ The day before the Boxers at Chochou had attacked the Kaopeitien station and destroyed the Peiho Bridge of the Paotingfu Railway,³⁷ setting fire to more than ten villages south of Paoting.³⁸

[1967, Chester C. Tan, “The Manchu Court and the Boxers”, in The Boxer Catastrophe (History), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:

“To protect Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government.
Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.

2023 August 4, Keith Bradsher, Li You, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, “Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-04, Asia Pacific:

So far, at least 22 people have died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.

2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, China:

A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.


Qingchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青川 (Qīngchuān).

It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue.

2008 May 26, “Some areas in China to relax one-child policy for quake victims”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-18, Asia Pacific:

Since a magnitude eight earthquake struck Qingchuan county, Sichuan, five years ago, killing more than 80,000, a Hong Kong education expert has been working on a reconstruction of a different kind.

2013 May 27, Cynthia Chan, “Giving teachers in disaster zones spiritual training”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2013-06-10, Family & Relationships:

Qingchuan is one of Sichuan’s poorest counties. In 2010 the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council published a report on Qingchuan’s pre- and post-earthquake economic situation. “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward. Before the earthquake, poverty was already substantially worse [in Qingchuan] than in other national poverty alleviation project areas.”

2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

The Sichuan government said several rail services had been suspended for safety checks, but that it had not received any reports of power being cut off in any parts of the province.
It also showed pictures from Qingchuan county, the quake’s epicentre, with everything looking as normal and with no damage.

2017 September 30, Ben Blanchard, “Quake rattles southwestern China causing minor damage”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, Richard Pullin, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-07, World News:


青川

→ English: Chingchuan, Qingchuan

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/

(～縣) Qingchuan (a county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China)


Ewenki

Sixty percent of China’s 27,000 Ewenki people live in Ewenki Autonomous Banner.

1998, James S. Olson, “Evenk”, in An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:

The church in Keyihe Town, Ewenki Autonomous Banner, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia, held a consecration ceremony for its new building on June 29, said CCC&TSPM.

2023 July 12, John Zhang, “Inner Mongolia Church Consecrates New Building”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2024-06-02:

An autonomous banner in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

ewengki ündüsüten-ü öbertegen ǰasaqu qosiɣu

ᠡᠸᠡᠩᠬᠢ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ


Jingchuan

/d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川 /泾川 (Jīngchuān).

To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.

1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

As huangdi, she ordered every prefecture in the land to build a Dayun Temple, each of which would be provided with a copy of the all-important Dayun Sutra. The reliquary in this exhibition is from the Dayun Temple in Jingzhou prefecture (now Jingchuan County, Gansu).

2004, James C. Y. Watt, “Art and History in China from the Third to the Eighth Century”, in China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, New York, New Haven, London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1:

Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha.[…]
The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box.

2017 November 15, Kastalia Medrano, “BUDDHA’S REMAINS? CREMATED HUMAN DISCOVERED IN INSCRIBED BOX ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT STATUES IN CHINA”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 2017-11-16, TECH & SCIENCE:


Pingliang

P’ing-liang, the leading city of northeastern Kansu fell to the Moslems on September 24, 1863.

[1966, Wen-djang Chu [朱文長], “The Developments in Kansu”, in Karl Jahn, John R. Krueger, editors, The Moslem Rebellion in Northwest China 1862-1878: A Study of Government Minority Policy (Central Asian Studies), number V, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co., →OCLC, page 66:

Three children have died and 35 people have become ill from drinking nitrite-tainted milk in Gansu Province in northwestern China, the Xinhua news agency reported Friday. In the latest food safety scandal to hit the dairy industry, most of the sick children were being treated at two hospitals in Pingliang city, Xinhua said.

2011 April 8, Reuters, “China: Tainted Milk Kills 3 Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-04-12, Asia Pacific:

A man in China's Gansu province has been detained for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate a fake story about a train crash, marking China's first arrest in an AI-related probe as Beijing tightens deepfake technology.
The story, which claimed the crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu, gained more than 15,000 clicks after being published on social media on April 25, Pingliang city's local police bureau reported.

2023 May 10, Ella Cao, Ryan Woo, “China reports first arrest over fake news generated by ChatGPT”, in Christina Fincher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-10, Disrupted:

A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.


天一閣

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ kɤ³⁵/

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ i⁵⁵ kɤ³⁵/

Tianyi Ge (a library in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China)


Kiến An

[kiən˧˦ ʔaːn˧˧]

[kiəŋ˦˧˥ ʔaːŋ˧˧]

[kiəŋ˦˥ ʔaːŋ˧˧]

vi:Kiến An
vi:Kiến An (xã)
vi:Kiến An, Hứa Xương

Jian'an (a district of Xuchang, Henan, China)


Mungulii

Mungulia (definite)
Mungulie (alternative)

(chiefly historical) Mongolia (a Mongolian-speaking geographic region in East Asia, including the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, and sometimes also Buryatia, Tuva and the Altai Republic in Russia)


西充

/ɕi⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/ɕi⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

(～縣) Xichong (a county of Nanchong, Sichuan, China)


કાશ્મીર

head

કાશ્મીર • (kāśmīr) m

gu-proper noun

કાશ્મીર • (kāśmīr) m

Borrowed from English Cashmere, cashmere.

bor+

Kashmir (a contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China)


𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰠𐱅𐰤

head

𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰠𐱅𐰤 (tögültün)

Uncertain, however there have been multiple attempts at understanding the etymology.
* Some connect the first part of the name to Proto-Turkic *tökül- (“to be poured”), the passive form of *tök- (“to pour”), however one should've expected -k- rather than -g- (cf. Turkish dökülmek) and there is no viable morphological way to derive it as there is no *-tün suffix.
* Some read it as tügül:tün and explain it as "not Tün", the first part coming from a hypothetical Proto-Turkic *tegül, however this is etymologically and phonetically improbable.
* Li suggests that the second element is borrowed from Middle Chinese 屯 (MC trwin|dwon, “village”) and reads it as "The Village of Tögül" although the first part still remains obscure.
Li also put forward the idea that it was used as the word for the Hetao region.

𐰋𐰼𐰘𐰀:𐰲𐰆𐰍𐰖:𐰘𐰃𐱁:𐱅𐰇𐰏𐰠𐱅𐰤:𐰖𐰔𐰃:𐰸𐰆𐰣𐰖𐰃𐰤:𐱅𐰃𐰾𐰼:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣:𐰇𐰠𐰾𐰚𐰏

8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, S6-7:

If you intend to settle on the Yin mountains and on the Hetao region's plain in the south, O Turkic people, you will die!


Trường Sa

→ English: Truong Sa, Trường Sa

[t͡ɕɨəŋ˨˩ saː˧˧]

[ʈɨəŋ˦˩ ʂaː˧˧]

[ʈɨəŋ˦˩ saː˧˧]

[ʈɨəŋ˨˩ ʂaː˧˧]

[ʈɨəŋ˨˩ saː˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 長沙, composed of 長 and 沙.

vi-etym-sino

Changsha (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Hunan, China)

Changsha (a county of Changsha, Hunan, China)


Han River

Partial calque of Chinese 漢江 /汉江 (Hànjiāng).

partial calque

In the one case, a two-storeyed house in Wuchang which has long been needing repairs collapsed and killed the mother and son of the occupier. In the other case, a house built partly on piles at the edge of the Han River above Chiaokou was overturned and the wife and daughter of the tenant were thrown into the river and drowned.

1930 August 5 [1930 August 1], “Hailstone Damage Near Hankow”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Gazette, volume CLXXVI, number 3287, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 199, column 5:

Here, more than 14 million people in Hubei would be affected if the project damaged the Han River, the tributary of the Yangtze where the middle route starts, said Du Yun, a geographer at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, the provincial capital.

2011 June 1, Edward Wong, “Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-06-03, Asia Pacific:

A tributary of the Yangtse flowing through Shaanxi and Hubei, China, with its river mouth in Wuhan


An Dương

[ʔaːn˧˧ zɨəŋ˧˧]

[ʔaːŋ˧˧ jɨəŋ˧˧]

[ʔaːŋ˧˧ jɨəŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 安陽, composed of 安 and 陽.

vi-etym-sino

Anyang (a prefecture-level city of Henan, China)

Anyang (a county of Anyang, Henan, China)


Tongren

The protests this week have mostly unfolded in Tibetan towns in Qinghai Province, a vast, sparsely populated region that is historically important as a center of Tibetan culture.
They began at a high school on Tuesday in the town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan, and then widened.[…]
The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.

2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-07-14, Asia Pacific:

A county-level city of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.


Tongren

Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.

2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times, sourced from Beijing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-02, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.


Yanhe

[…]verified that the video was filmed on Friday in Yanhe Tujia autonomous county in Guizhou province, southwest China.
The girl’s father, who was not named, said he let his one-year-old child sit on his lap to “drive the car together” and later allowed the girl to control the steering wheel on her own.

2017 August 28, Laurie Chen, “Outcry after Chinese parents allow toddler to ‘drive’ car on country road”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-28, China:

A Tujia autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.


Dejiang

Techiang County CCP Committee's four Standing Committee members led 48 cadres and farming technicians to set up high-yielding farm land in six communes.

[1978 November 15 [1978 October 9], “Kweichow Prefecture Agriculture”, in People's Republic of China, Agriculture, number 12, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Kweichow, page 64:

Three Chinese police officers and more than ten civilians were injured in a clash after police tried to stop a traditional street dragon dance, state media said on Monday.
The local government in Dejiang county in southwestern Guizhou province banned the dragon dance in the downtown area over safety concerns, Xinhua news agency said.

2009 February 9, Nick Macfie, “Fists fly as Chinese police chase the dragon”, in Sanjeev Miglani, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-17, LIFESTYLE:


Shiqian

The fish was found in sediment about 439 million years old at a remote site in Shiqian county in Guizhou province in southern China.

2022 September 28, Ling Xin, “‘Exquisite’ Chinese fish fossils fill gaps in understanding the evolution of jaws in vertebrates”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-28, Science:


Yinjiang

"When I was deported from China I was sent from Shanghai, and I spent the night in the waiting-room there with my guard, and there I got talking to two peasants from group nine of the Red Star co-operative in the Yinchiang area to the north of the province of Kweichow. My guard was asleep, and as they knew that I was in custody they trusted me, and they told me in an undertone that all their group had deserted the co-operative to go into the mountains to pick roots and mushrooms in order to have something to eat. They said that in their area there was a famine every spring."

[1960, Suzanne Labin, quoting Violette, “The Mother of a Family”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 196–197:

Last year he earned 20,000 yuan (US$3,170) from selling the livestock, much more than most of his fellow villagers in Yinjiang Miao and Tu Ethnic Autonomous County in Guizhou province, according to the report.

2018 April 24, Alice Yan, “Disabled farmer herds cattle on hands and one leg, yet out-earns fellow villagers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-24, Society:

A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.


Songtao

The detectives discovered from him that Yang Sister Six had come to Mayang from Songtao County in Guizhou Province.

2016, He Jiahong, “The Setting of Inappropriately Tight Deadlines for Solving Criminal Cases”, in Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China (Law / China), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:

A Miao autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.


Jiangkou

Wearing yellow pyjamas and lying flat on his back with arms crossed, the small boy fits perfectly on top of the dangerously high window canopy outside his family’s flat in Jiangkou county, Guizhou province.

2018 May 4, Louise Moon, “Firefighters rescue boy sleeping on 5th floor window ledge”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-04, China/People & Culture:


Bijiang

Spring is in full bloom everywhere. And farmers in Guizhou Province are not only turning rapeseed into edible oil, but also into paint. In Bijiang District, Tongren City, and Pingba District, Anshun City, farmers have painted the most enthusiastic look of spring with blossoming rapeseed flowers.

2023 March 10, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guizhou Province, “Encounter a stunning spring in the sea of rapeseed flowers in southwest China's Guizhou Province”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 2023-11-22:


Wanshan

"The biggest problem has been keeping the children warm at night," said a farmer, Ye Xiaoling, in the Wanshan area of the Guizhou prefecture of Tongren, which has also been without power since January. "Our problem is that our homes and everything else are not used to such cold."

2008 February 6, “Millions of Chinese still without power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-12, Asia Pacific:

In view of the number of endemic species known from Hong Kong islands, including some found at low elevation such as Philautus romeri, Megophrys brachykolos, and Dibamus bogadeki, the Wanshan Islands will repay a thorough investigation.

1997, James Lazell, Michael Lau, Wenhua Lu, “A Brief Herpetological Excursion to Wai Ling Ding, Wanshan Islands, South China Sea”, in Asiatic Herpetological Research, volume 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84, column 1:

The Wanshan Archipelago comprises roughly 104 islands within the administration of Zhuhai; and while quiet today, they have had a turbulent history, mostly intertwined with Hong Kong.

2018 August 21, “The Chinese island that is so close to Hong Kong, yet very different: Wailingding – how to get there and what to see”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-21, Travel & Leisure:

An archipelago of Xiangzhou district, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.


Yuping

A man burns wood to boil water at his home in Guizhou’s Yuping county in July.

2018 February 1, Jane Cai, “Will poor Chinese province’s big data dreams pay off?”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-17, China:

A Dong autonomous county in Tongren, Guizhou, China.


略陽

desc

→ English: Luehyang, Lueyang, Lüeyang, Lveyang

/ly̯ɛ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/lœːk̚² jœːŋ²¹/

/ly̯ɛ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/lœːk̚² jœːŋ²¹/

(～縣) Lüeyang, Lueyang (a county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China)


Kangshung Face

Partial calque of Mandarin 康雄壁 (Kāngxióng Bì) using a garbled version of Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-hsiung².

partial calque

On the right, great contorted cornices, overhanging masses of snow and ice, stuck out like twisted fingers over the 10,000-foot drop of the Kangshung Face. Any move on to these cornices could only bring disaster.

1953, Edmund Hillary, “The Summit”, in The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 202:

For the Vaseline Intensive Care line of lotions, he helped create a campaign centering on a 1994 expedition to climb Mount Everest; a television commercial, a newspaper coupon insert and a direct-mail brochure all hailed Sandy Hill Pittman's efforts to become the first American woman to climb the mountain's Kangshung Face.

1995 March 7, Stuart Elliott, “THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; In the artificial world of Madison Avenue, a few campaigns dare to embrace reality in their pitches.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Business:

I don’t know whether someone will go to the North Face this year. There you can find pure loneliness. In the base camp, you are only joined by snow grouses. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet, and you have the view of the North Face. You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.

2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-01-31:

We dropped a few steps down the windward side of the ridge as we continued, hyperaware of the overhanging cornices that could so easily lure us too close to the Kangshung Face.

2017, Matt Dickinson, chapter 12, in Killer Storm: A Terror Attack at Everest Base Camp, Shrine Bell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:

Unable to see, they lost their bearings in the dark. The wind edged them to the lip of a 7,000ft drop down the Kangshung Face. “One mis-step here and it was a one-way ticket to Tibet,” Fox said.

2018 June 21, “Charlotte Fox obituary”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-22, Obituary:

a face on the east side of Mount Everest


Futian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福田 (Fútián).

The spectacle, which took place Nov. 29 in the Shenzhen district of Futian, was in many ways unremarkable for a nation in which wrongdoers have long been subject to public humiliation.

2006 December 9, Edward Cody, “Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-31:

In Shenzhen’s Futian district, on the ninth floor of a concrete tower, there is an open-air sales floor that works as a sort of corporate embassy for the social network.

2019 February 7, Paul Mozur, Lin Qiqing, “How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-07, Technology:

A district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.


Хөлөнбуйр

head

Хөлөнбуйр • (Xölönbujr)

mn-proper noun

Хөлөнбуйр • (Xölönbujr)

/ˈxɵɮɵmpʊi̯r̥/

From the names of Hulun Lake and Buir Lake.

Hulunbuir (a prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China)


三埠

/saːm⁵⁵ fɐu̯²²/

/saːm⁵⁵ fɐu̯²²/

(～街道) Sanbu (a subdistrict of Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China)


射陽

/ʂɤ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/sɛː²² jœːŋ²¹/

/ʂɤ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/sɛː²² jœːŋ²¹/

(～縣) Sheyang (a county of Yancheng, Jiangsu, China)


滬邑

/xu⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/

/xu⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/


Wanning

zh-l

萬寧／万宁 (Wànníng)

Nearby places such as Haikou, the capital of Hainan Province, and Wanning, a popular surfing spot, also shut down to curb the spread of the virus.

2022 August 19, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Trouble in Paradise: Chinese Tourists Left Stranded During Lockdowns”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-19, Business:

A sub-prefectural city of Hainan, China.


Wuzhishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五指山 (Wǔzhǐshān).

On 30 April guerrillas led by LIN Hao-chun (林鵅群) raided and burned the bus terminal at T'ingan Hsien (110-46, 19-42). Large quantities of cement, gasoline, sugar, two trucks, and other supplies were also burned or destroyed, Anti-Communist guerrillas on Hainan are now based at Wuchihshan (109-27, 18-52).

[1951 August 17, “Guerrilla Activities in South China”, in Information Report, Central Intelligence Agency, published 2001:

Some cities in other provinces are also vaccinating children between three and 11. The city of Wuzhishan in the southern province of Hainan said on Tuesday that it plans to finish giving two doses to about 12,000 individuals in that age group by the end of December.

2021 October 26, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “China's Zhejiang province seeks to vaccinate young kids by December”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-10-26, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals:


Ledong

The crash took place in Ledong county in the mountainous and heavily forested tropical province and the cause was under investigation, the navy said on its official Twitter-like Weibo microblog.

2019 March 12, “China says 2 pilots killed in crash of navy jet”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 2024-01-14:

A Li autonomous county in Hainan, China.


Dongfang

Comrade (Lin Wang-ching), former secretary of the control committee of the Hainan Regional CCP Committee, died in Tungfang County on 12 July 1967 as a result of persecution by the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Lin Piao and the gang of four. A memorial service was held for him in Haikow on 12 December.

[1978 December 19 [1978 December 15], “Hainan Holds Memorial Service for Persecuted Local Official”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 244, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 9:

The company said the project would be located in Dongfang in its home island province of Hainan, in southern China, and would produce 20,000 tonnes per year of lithium hydroxide, a chemical favoured in lithium-rich EV batteries.

2021 August 23, Tom Daly, “Chinese iron ore miner to invest $164 million in lithium production”, in David Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-08-24, COMMODITIES:


Changjiang

/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒ(j)æŋ/

/(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈd͡ʒiɑŋ/

A district of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.

This inconspicuous project is located in Changjiang county, on Hainan province’s northwest coast, right next to China’s southernmost nuclear plant: the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant. Transport vehicles carrying materials come and go, raising clouds of dust along the road leading to the plant.

2023 December 9, Dannie Peng, “Small modular nuclear reactors: how China and the US are poles apart in energy ambitions”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-09, Science:


Qiongzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瓊中 /琼中 (Qióngzhōng).

Twenty-six people from our village are delegates to peoples' congresses at various levels in Kwangtung province. My Mei-hua was elected vice-chairwoman of the Chiungchung county revolutionary committee.

[1973 August, Teng Yuan-ying, “A Miao Woman's Story”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 8, Peking, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:

The head of the finance bureau in Qiongzhong county, Hainan, was sacked last week after an inspection team visited a restaurant and found an invoice for 15,000 yuan (HK$18,400) issued to the government that was actually for three private banquets held by the chief.

2013 January 30, Zhuang Pinghui, “Xi Jinping calls for curbs on lavish official banquets”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-05-25, China:

A Li and Miao autonomous county in Hainan, China.


Tunchang

On July 8 this year, under the pretext of "applying for an audience with the higher authorities to appeal for help," some individual evildoers in Hainan Island’s Tunchang County instigated and gathered together over 300 people in the county town who were unaware of the truth.

1979 August 22 [1979 August 17], “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 164, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou Guangdong Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page P 1; republished as “Guangdong Reports Unrest on Hainan Island”, in John P. Burns, Stanley Rosen, editors, Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis, 1986, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:


Ding'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定安 (Dìng'ān).

Assisted by the work groups of the Hainan regional and Tingan County public security bureaus, the party committee of (Hsienkou) commune in Tingan County recently launched education in the socialist rule of law in the commune on a grand scale.

[1978 November 17 [1978 November 10], “Hainan Commune Conducts Education in Rule of Law”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 223, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page H 7:

While details of his case are yet to emerge, his relative Chen Jinchang , Dingan county police chief in Hainan province, is also being investigated for graft.

2015 February 8, Mimi Lau, “Corruption casts shadow over Guangdong congress”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-04, Politics:


Hengqin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 橫琴 /横琴 (Héngqín).

A strange telegram comes from Peking. It says that at some date prior to the 11th inst., a Chinese squadron attacked the Portuguese gun-boats lying off Hengchin Island, and inflicted a loss of over 10 killed and wounded. The Governor of Macao at once despatched reinforcements which bombarded the island and caused many casualties.

[1910 July 23 [1910 July 18], “THE MACAO AFFAIR”, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume LIV, number 4, Yokohama, page 102, column 2:

When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.

2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-07-18, Asia Pacific:

China’s expanding high-speed train network and projects such as a 38 billion yuan bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai on the mainland are reducing travelling times to Macau. The development of neighbouring Hengqin island - which is also part of mainland China - is also likely to boost visitors to Macau.

2014 January 2, Farah Master, “Macau rakes in $45 billion gaming revenue in 2013, up 19%”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-10-12, Business News:

In several documents of the 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century these two islands appear as part of the colony of Macau, but it is true that they never held strategic or economic interest for the Portuguese – which is understandable: while the island now known as Hengqin occupies a total land area of 106.46 square kilometres, only 28 are good for development.

2019 June 14, “Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese”, in Macau Business, archived from the original on 2023-09-16:

The announcement comes days after Beijing announced plans to include Qianhai, a special co-operation zone in Guangdong’s Shenzhen, and Hengqin, an island in the southern city of Zhuhai, as part of the Greater Bay Area’s long-term development.

2021 September 10, “China, Hong Kong, Macao banks to offer regional investments”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-09-10:

It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.
The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.

2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

He reportedly left Macau with his friends on the night of 25 October (Tuesday) for Hengqin to drive home. They were immediately taken to quarantine upon arrival in Yeungkong city.

2022 October 28, “Guangdong man infected with Covid-19 visited Macau earlier this week”, in Macau Business Media, archived from the original on 2022-10-28:

An island of Xiangzhou district, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, partially leased by Macau.


Dom João

The Catholic being the state religion of Portugal, the prisons and the five government hospitals at Macao and in Portuguese Timor are all open to the ministrations of Catholic priests and sisters; three of these hospitals have chaplains of their own. The government also maintains on the islands of Coloane and Dom João, near Macao, two leperhouses, which are frequently visited by missionaries and sisters.

1910, Francis J. Bacchus, “Macao”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume IX, New York: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 482, column 1:

Today, Ilha Verde and Taipa are administered by Portugal whereas the other territories discussed in these papers are under Chinese administration. In the prologue to the paper concerning Dom João (Xiaohengqin Island), the author indicates that he was preparing similar papers concerning Coloane and Tai-Vong-Cam (Dahengqin) Islands.

1989, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Geology”, in Macau, volume 105, Clio Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

1937 (3 December) Memorandum on boundaries of Macau relating to Lapa, Dom João and Vong Cam (Montanha) signed between consul for Portugal and consul for Japan in Hong Kong.

2016, “Timeline”, in Geoffrey C. Gunn, editor, Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow, HKU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 194:

Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam).[…]
The most curious thing: this small, economically more valuable part corresponds almost entirely to the landfill that in the 90’s linked the two islands, which means that the original land of Montanha and Dom João was mostly hilly and unsuitable for real estate development (as the images in these pages show).[…]
For a short time, two years later, the Japanese expelled the Portuguese, and at the end of World War II, Montanha and Dom João passed definitively to the Chinese side (in 1938, a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Macau tells us that General Chiang-Kai Chek proposed a landfill connect the two islands . . .).

(historical) A former island in Xiangzhou district, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, that became part of Hengqin.


Huangyuan

A bee-keeper holds a comb of honey bees at Huangyuan county in northwest China's Qinghai province July 7, 2007.

2008 June 17, James Grubel, “Australia urged to protect its honey worker bees”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-18:


Huangzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湟中 (Huángzhōng).

The principal of a primary school in Huangzhong County, northwest of Tongren, confirmed by telephone that peaceful protests had taken place.
Students in Rebkong appeared to have returned to classes by Wednesday.

2010 October 22, Edward Wong, “Tibetans in China Protest Proposed Curbs on Their Language”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-07-14, Asia Pacific:

A district of Xining, Qinghai, China, formerly a county.


Chengxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城西 (Chéngxī).


Chengdong

According to QINGHAI RIBAO, on the second day of the lunar new year, Zhao Haifeng, secretary of the provincial CPC Committee, (Zhang Jifu), deputy mayor of Xining, and other leading comrades went to a new residential area in (Linjiaya), (Yuanshan) in (Chengdong) District, Xining City, to call on those people of Hui Nationality who were previously transferred to the rural areas and have now been approved to live in the city.

1985 April 2 [1985 February 27], “Qinghai's Shao Haifeng Calls on People of Hui Nationality”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 85-032, sourced from Xining Qinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106:

Though the walls have since been razed, the boundaries they once demarcated remain salient as Xining's contemporary street grid follows the path where they once stood. Most residents still recognize the city's Chengdong District, which sits on top of the former Muslim city, as the Hui Quarter.

2022, David R. Stroup, “"God is a Drug": Ethnic Politics in the Xi Jinping Era”, in Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:


斗山

/toʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tɐu̯³⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

/toʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tɐu̯³⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

(～鎮) Doushan (a town in Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China)


બ્રહ્મપુત્ર

બ્રહ્ મ પુત્ ર

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).

lbor

Brahmaputra (a river in China, India and Bangladesh)


خوتەن

From Sanskrit गौस्तन (gaustana), गोस्थान (gosthāna) or गास्तन (gāstana).

Hotan (prefecture in Xinjiang; county-level city in Xinjiang; county in Xinjiang)


西樵

/ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːu̯²¹/

/ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːu̯²¹/

(～鎮) Xiqiao (a town in Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong, China)


อัลไต

จังหวัดอัลไต

a prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China


Baiyin

Metallic minerals are associated mainly with the copper-mining center of Paiyin, 45 miles northeast of Lanchow. Paiyin was raised to the status of city in 1958, after construction of the Lanchow-Paotow railroad had provided access to the deposit.

[1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Kansu Corridor”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 294:

Thirty years after Gao Chengyong embarked on a succession of 11 rape-murders of women in northwest China, a court sentenced him to death on Friday, following an investigation that involved sifting through 230,000 fingerprints.
The sentence by a court in Baiyin, a small city in Gansu Province, was not unexpected in China, which executes more prisoners than any other.

2018 March 30, Chris Buckley, “‘Vicious’ Killer of 11 Women Gets Death Penalty in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-03-31, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.


炮山河

/pʰɑʊ̯⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/pʰɑʊ̯⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

(historical) Paoshan (a former short river in modern Hanjiang district, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China), a former name of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú)


長春河

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/

(historical) Changchun (a former short river in modern Hanjiang district, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China), a former name of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú)


Slender West Lake

Calque from Chinese 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú, literally “Skinny West Lake”), the adjective distinguishing it from West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

'Slender' West Lake lies on the western outskirts of Yangzhou. In the early years of the Manchu Emperor Kangxi, the area beside the lake, known as the Alley of Chiming Jade, was famed for its high concentration of houses of pleasure, and for the beauty of its singsong-girls (whose skills extended to a great deal more than bel canto).

1993 June, Louis Cha, “The Deer and the Cauldron—Two Chapters from a Novel by Louis Cha”, in John Minford, transl., edited by Geremie Barmé, East Asian History, number 5, Australian National University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55:

Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why.

2011 May 23, Royston Chan, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “North Korea's Kim tours east China, economic ties in focus”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-17, World News:

Yangzhou, where Mr. Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu. One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr. Zhou’s colleagues recited it in unison during an excursion to Slender West Lake, a World Heritage Site in the city.

2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-04, Profile:


保揚河

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɑŋ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɑŋ³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

(historical) Baoyang (a former short river in modern Hanjiang district, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China), a former name of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú)


保障河

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/

(historical) Baozhang (a former short river in modern Hanjiang district, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China), a former name of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú)


保障湖

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

/pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

(historical) Baozhang (a lake in modern Hanjiang district, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China), a former name of 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú)


Jinghai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靜海 /静海 (Jìnghǎi).


Xiqing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西青 (Xīqīng).

The plant will be run as a subsidiary of SMIC in cooperation with the government of Tianjin's Xiqing district, and will have an initial registered capital of $5 billion, the filing said.

2022 August 27, Josh Horwitz, “Chinese chip foundry SMIC to invest $7.5 bln in new fab in Tianjin”, in David Goodman, William Mallard, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-27, Technology:

The project, with a total investment of US$7.5 billion, began construction last Saturday, according to a report by Tianjin Daily, the city’s official newspaper. Tianjin has been under partial lockdown to combat Covid since late August.
SMIC said on August 27 it had entered into a cooperation framework agreement with two local government authorities in the Xiqing district to build the new fab.

2022 September 28, Ann Cao, “China’s biggest chip maker SMIC pushes ahead with construction of new Tianjin plant despite Covid-19 lockdowns”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-28, Big Tech:


Jinnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 津南 (Jīnnán).

In Tianjin, schools are the hotbed of infections and all schools in Jinnan district in Tianjin have been suspended.

2022 January 11, Josephine Ma, “Omicron: Tianjin casts wide net to track new transmission routes in outbreak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-11, News:

Large fissures appeared on roads near a residential complex in Tianjin's Jinnan district and geological experts said they were likely caused by underground cavities below a depth of 1,300 m (4,270 feet), the Tianjin government said on Thursday on social media.

2023 June 9, Bernard Orr, “Thousands evacuated in China's Tianjin after cracks appear near high-rises”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-09, China:


Hedong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河東 /河东 (Hédōng).

Hedong district is still a work in progress but has large expansion plans in the future. It is a quiet area of the city and has many walking areas for browsing that include the 600 year old scholar tree and large copper bells.

2010 May, Jeanie Carroll, “History and Modern Perspective”, in 厉静, editor, Tianjin Basics [精彩天津], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press [五洲传播出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

The two blasts, which went off some time after 8pm, happened in the city’s Hedong district, home to over 900,000 people, including many ethnic minorities, according to Tianjin’s yearbook.

2023 June 14, Sylvie Zhuang, “3 dead after firework blasts hit apartment blocks in Chinese city of Tianjin; suspect detained”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-14, Politics:


Heping

When the coronavirus struck, local officials sprang into action. The district of Heping in particular seized on the city’s huge supply of blue-colored construction walls as a way to stop the virus’s spread. It helps that Tianjin neighbors Hebei Province, an industrial area where steel mills are plentiful and supplies can be easily found.

2020 March 4, Cao Li, “A ‘Blue Great Wall’ Divides a City as It Battles the Coronavirus”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-04:


Nankai

In the Nankai District of Tianjin, 20 percent of 2,555 individual businesspeople were illiterate, mainly housewives, 40 percent were primary school graduates, 15 percent junior middle school graduates, and 35 percent senior middle school graduates. That district reported five or six college graduates, mainly artists who drew blueprints.

1986, Marcia Yudkin [尤德金], “Who Are China's Individual Businesspeople?”, in Making Good: Private Business in Socialist China [社会主义中国的个体经济], 1st edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

The report alleged that the Hong Kong-registered association lacked the right credentials to qualify as a nonprofit group. The sleuthing reporter tracked down the website of the China Urine Therapy Association and found grounds for suspicion there as well.
“After visiting the physical address for the website, it was found to be in an old residential neighborhood of Nankai District in Tianjin,” a port city near Beijing, the report said. “There was an old man inside, and he had nothing to do with urine therapy.”

2014 June 27, Chris Buckley, “People’s Daily Takes Firm Stance Against Urine Consumption”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Sinosphere:


Hongqiao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅橋 /红桥 (Hóngqiáo).

Not long ago an exhibition of class education was inaugurated at the “Three Stones” Historical Museum in Hungchiao District, Tientsin.

[1969, “Chronicle”, in Chinese Literature, number 1, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:

Against that backdrop, Mr. Liu, a former lawyer with a long interest in psychology, decided that the people of Tianjin needed some help apologizing, "as a way of relieving pressure, reducing barriers and the many negative feelings between people today."
In fact, the apology company is an arm of a psychological stress reduction center that he also runs in some low concrete buildings that belong to the Hongqiao district government, his partner in what he hopes will be a profitable venture.
"Our society is changing very fast and competition is very harsh, so everyone now feels pressure in his heart," Mr. Liu said, sitting under a trellis bearing plastic fruit that covers the ceiling of the center's group counseling room.

2001 January 3, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Tianjin Journal; For a Fee, This Chinese Firm Will Beg Pardon for Anyone”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-29:


Beichen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北辰 (Běichén).

The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.[…]
It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.

2012 March 19, Zhou Xin, Nick Edwards, “China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 2024-07-04, World:

Monday’s fire occurred in the Beichen district, an area far closer to the urban core of Tianjin.

2015 October 12, Michael Forsythe, “China: Fire Strikes Tianjin, 2 Months After Fatal Blast”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-16, Asia Pacific:


Dongli

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東麗 /东丽 (Dōnglì).

Enterprises continue to put more money into control of water pollution (42 per cent of total pollution control funds invested) than into control of other types of pollution and the Dongli district in Tianjin is home to China’s largest sewage works.

1998, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Natural Resources”, in Brian Hook, editor, Beijing and Tianjin: Towards a Millennial Megalopolis, volume 4, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

Workers at the factory in the Dongli District of Tianjin, a near Beijing, stopped work on Tuesday afternoon, demanding wage rises and improved benefits, said the Xinhua report.

2010 June 30, Chris Buckley, “China strike hits Japanese electronics plant - report”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-03, MONEY NEWS:


Ninghe

* The Baodi Natural Gas Utilization Project will supply gas to industrial and business users and 450,000 homes in the districts of Baodi, Ninghe and Jizhou in the northern municipality of Tianjin.

2019 September 27, Shivani Singh, Beijing Newsroom, “China's Kunlun Energy starts gas pipeline project in Tianjin - CNPC”, in Aditya Soni, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-02-04:


Baodi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶坻 /宝坻 (Bǎodǐ).

Tianjin's Baodi district government, together with Hong Kong-listed property developer Hopson Development began construction of the project in 2002.

2013 September 10, Mandy Zuo, “3,000 villas, but no one’s home: Inside the Jing Jin ghost city”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-09-10, China:

Of 102 confirmed cases in the city, at least 33 patients worked or shopped at a department store in the Baodi district, or had close contact with employees or customers, according to the Tianjin health authorities.[…]
In addition, emergency measures were imposed over sections of Baodi — home to nearly one million people — with all but two entrances and exits for certain residential areas sealed off and security personnel on round-the-clock patrols.

2020 February 11, “The Illness Now Has a Name, COVID-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-12:


Jizhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 薊州 /蓟州 (Jìzhōu).

Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf.

[1901, Great Britain Foreign Office Correspondence on China, 1872-1904, volume 4, →OCLC, page 73:

They implanted the Jizhou District (薊城, 薊縣) in the NW corner of Tianjin municipality as the place feoffed to the descendants of first legitimate ruler, the Yellow Emperor, Yao in another scripture. The Jizhou District (薊縣) was the metropolis of Baekik descendants and built the nation of YaeMaek (濊貊國) where King Dongmyeong had settled.

2020, Lee Mosol, Ancient History of Korea, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GmUKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT91:


石澗

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/sɛːk̚² kaːn³³/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/sɛːk̚² kaːn³³/

(～鎮) Shijian (a town in Wuwei, Wuhu, Anhui)

(～鎮) Shijian (a town in Guangning, Zhaoqing, Guangdong)


Anbu

Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.

[1936, K. Chimin Wong [王吉民], Wu Lien-teh [伍連德], “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period, 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 423:

Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.

2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.


廣豐

/ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ fɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷɔːŋ³⁵ fʊŋ⁵⁵/

/ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ fɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷɔːŋ³⁵ fʊŋ⁵⁵/

(～區, formerly ～縣) Guangfeng (a district and former county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China)


موڭغۇلىيە

Mongolia (a Mongolian-speaking geographic region in East Asia, including the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, and sometimes also Buryatia, Tuva and the Altai Republic in Russia)


મંચુરિયા

head

મંચુરિયા • (mañcuriyā) m

gu-proper noun

મંચુરિયા • (mañcuriyā) m

Borrowed from English Manchuria, ultimately from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju).

Manchuria (a region in northeast China and southeast Russia)


錢唐

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ tʰɔːŋ²¹/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ tʰɔːŋ²¹/

A name for the county established by Qin Shi Huang in the Qin dynasty. (It has changed its name to 錢塘 /钱塘 (Qiántáng) since the Tang dynasty.)

(～縣) (historical) Qiantang (a county in ancient China; modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang)


Haibei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 海北 (Hǎiběi).

A Tibetan-nationality woman cadre in (Tolien) commune, Chilien County, Haipei Tibetan Autonomous Chou, fearing no hardships, made a 4-day journey on horseback to register for college enrollment in the county seat.

[1972 August 23 [1972 August 19], “Tsinghai Stresses Enrollment Procedures for Colleges”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers gather at the site of a coal mine accident in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwestern China’s Qinghai Province, on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A team of 200 Chinese police, emergency workers and experts on Sunday were trying to reach 19 coal miners trapped in the flooded mine in the northwestern Qinghai province. (Wu Gang/Xinhua via AP)

2021 August 15, “Flooded coal mine in China’s Qinghai kills 1, strands 19”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 2021-09-20:

A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.


Haiyan

A visitor stands on a blast wall at the site of China's first nuclear weapons base in Haiyan county, Qinghai province April 13, 2010. China declassified its first nuclear weapons base in 2007 and has been inviting tourists to visit the site located in a remote part of the northwestern province of Qinghai, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

2010 April 13, “Nuclear landscapes”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-05-19, page 20/21:


Gangca

the experience of kangcha county on the northern bank of chinghai lake, the biggest hinterland lake in china, shows how these achievements are made. the county has fine grasslands and rich water resources.

[1973, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 5304-5325, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:

The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears.

[2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-05:

GANGCA, China[…]
But in places like this small, dusty town, located high on the Tibetan plateau in the western Chinese province of Qinghai, the most widespread problem is the dislocation of nomadic communities that comes with rapidly enforced top-down development.[…]
On a visit to Gangca earlier this month, I saw a large new hospital and well-maintained sports fields at the school. Housing developments painted a cheery canary yellow dotted the slopes behind the main street.

2013 February 25, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, “Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-06, Latitude: Views from Around the World:

Rescuers have retrieved two workers already from the mine in Gangca county, one of whom has died, state media Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.

2021 August 15, “Flooded coal mine in China’s Qinghai kills 1, 19 trapped”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 2021-08-15:


Qilian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連 /祁连 (Qílián).

2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-05:


Menyuan

The revolutionary committee of the Menyuan Hui Autonomous County recently called a conference to stir up an upsurge in agricultural mechanization throughout the country.

1968 August 8 [1968 August 6], “Menyuan Hui Calls Agricultural Conference”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:

Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.

[2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 621:

China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) in Menyuan county in Qinghai province.
Phone services in Menyuan, home to around 150,000 people, were operating normally, it said.

2016 January 20, Dean Yates, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits central China, no reports of casualties”, in John Stonestreet, Toni Reinhold, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-01-24, Green Business:

A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.


Tongliao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 通遼 /通辽 (Tōngliáo).

Discovered in Shanghai was a "Shang Yang Fang Sheng,"³¹ a standard measure for grain during the period of the reform led by the Chin Prime Minister Shang Yang, dated the 18th year of Prince Hsiao’s³² reign (344 B.C.). It was inscribed on one of its sides. When Chin Shih Huang unified the country, this measure was adopted as the standard throughout the land, and the imperial edict on the matter, issued in the 26th year of his reign, was engraved on its base. In 1973-74 in Shanpaoyingtzu, Naiman Banner, Cherim League,³³ Kirin Province, excavations on an ancient city site revealed a pottery measure engraved with the same imperial edict.

[1978, "Wenwu" (Cultural Relics) Magazine Reporter, “New Archaeological Finds: A Preliminary Summary of Important Discoveries”, in New Archaeological Finds in China (II): More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution, 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 7–8, 21:

Ximude, the director of the Jerim League Museum in Tongliao, a city in Inner Mongolia, was perplexed by the American visitor's strange interests.

2004 November 2, Julie Salamon, “The Long-Distance Treasure Hunt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-11, Art & Design:

A prefecture-level city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Horqin

CH/T 4007 transliteration of Mongolian ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ, in turn from Classical Mongolian ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ (qorčin) and Middle Mongol 豁儿臣 (qorčin).

A desert in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

A district of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

A Left Middle banner in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

A Left Back banner in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Kailu

An individual shot and killed five people before being apprehended by police, authorities said in Inner Mongolia’s eastern Kailu county.

2019 March 25, “5 killed in shooting in China’s Inner Mongolia”, in AP News, sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on 2025-03-11:

A county of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Jarud

A banner in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


Holingol

A few years after the smelter opened, herders in the area said that their sheep began falling sick, with jaws so painful that they could not eat. Soon, thousands of their animals had died. When they complained, the government simply arrested five of their leaders and forced the others to resettle in the nearby city of Holingol, demolishing their original homes.[…]
In Inner Mongolia’s Holingol, the Huomei Hongjun factory is one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world.

2015 April 7, Simon Denyer, “In China’s Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-08, Asia & Pacific:

The Nanlutian mine is in Holingol in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in an area rich in sub-bituminous coal reserves. The mine plans to gradually replace its diesel-powered dump trucks with electric ones. Its aim is promoting green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly production in the coal mining industry.

2021 August 11, Ailbhe Goodbody, “Nanlutian coal mine gets 120t electric truck”, in Mining Magazine, archived from the original on 2024-09-20, Fleets:

A county-level city of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.


陸良

/lu⁵¹ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/lʊk̚² lœːŋ²¹/

/lu⁵¹ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/lʊk̚² lœːŋ²¹/

(～縣) Luliang (a county of Qujing, Yunnan, China)


樂會

/lɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/lɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

(～縣) (historical) Lehui (a former county of Guangdong, China; now part of Qionghai, Hainan, China)


會理

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

(～市, formerly ～縣) Huili (a county-level city of Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China)


Aigun

North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900).

1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158:

Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.

1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:

Tsitsihar, or Pukwei, is the capital of Heilungkiang, its chief mart being Aigun, on the Amur.

1917, “The Provinces and Dependencies”, in W. Feldwick, editor, Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent & Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad, →OCLC, page 164, column 3:


Raohe

The man, identified only by his surname, Guo, allegedly killed six members of a family in 1991 “over a trivial matter,” according to an online statement from Shuangyashan city police. The murders took place in Heilongjiang province’s Raohe county, which borders Russia.

2016 May 15, “Murder suspect caught in China after 25 years on the run”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-02-03:

A county of Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China.


Chifeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤峰 (Chìfēng).

The ovoid six-lobed body, with elongated in-curved neck and round lip, is another of the common Liao types. This example is a primitive burnished earthenware with chattered vertical comb lines. It is related to the tradition of prehistoric Manchurian painted pottery from Ch’ih-feng (Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, part of the original Khitan territory).

[1973 May, Mino Yutaka, “Liao Dynasty Ceramics at China House Gallery New York”, in The Connoisseur, volume 183, number 735, The National Magazine Company Limited, →ISSN, page 110, column 1:

More than 17 million people near Beijing are under stay-at-home orders.[…]
Chifeng, a city in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, announced on Friday that it was shifting to “wartime” footing after discovering that more than 3,600 people from the two Hebei cities had visited in recent days.

2021 January 9, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “Officials Say Reports of New U.S. Coronavirus Variant Are Inaccurate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-09:


Keshan

This same process occurred in villages founded in central and northern Manchuria. The fragmentation of a large estate can be observed in the case of the Chang household, which owned 1,080 hectares in K’o-shan county of Heilungkiang province in north Manchuria prior to 1911. By 1934 the Chang household owned none of this land. The estate had been sold off so that portions of it were claimed by 54 households, which ranged in size from 130 hectares to .13 hectares.

[1980, Ramon H. Myers, “Economic Growth and Structural Change”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.

1994, John M. C. Gutteridge, Barry Halliwell, “Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients”, in Antioxidants in Nutrition, Health, and Disease, Oxford, New York, Tokyo: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:

A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.


Qinbei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽北 /钦北.

The presence of expanding local government bureaus and private entrepreneurs in Qinzhou Prefecture provided avenues for employment, thus pulling people into the county towns, and even smaller urban centers. For example, the emerging towns in QinBei District have become urban, not only as a result of population growth but also as a result of political influence.

[2021 February 25, Haiying Feng, Victor R. Squires, Jingji Wu, “Ecosystem Services Provisioning, Urban Growth and the Rural–Urban Interface: A Case Study from China”, in Land, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-09:

Cases of corruption in Qinzhou City were also reported in the media. One such case took place after an auction in the Qinbei District of Qinzhou City in autumn 2011 (Jiang 2015).

2022, “State Ownership and Governmental Management of River Sand”, in River-Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:

A district of Qinzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Qinnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽南 /钦南.

In 2007, the government of Shafu Town in Qinnan District, Guangxi, forced villagers of several villages in Dashigu to lease land to the government at a rate of RMB 580 per mu per year. The farmers refused to comply.

2009, Wang Keqin, “Restoring Private Ownership of Rural Lands to Safeguard the Basic Rights of Farmers”, in Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighanthan, editors, Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

On June 7, 2021, the Qinnan District People’s Court of Qinzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), sentenced to jail penalties 21 members of the Christian new religious movement known as “Bloody Holy Spirit” (血水圣灵) to jail penalties under Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code, which forbids being active in a banned religious movement classified as a xie jiao. 15 of them were women.

2021 June 18, Qi Junzao, “21 Bloody Holy Spirit Members Sentenced in Guangxi”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 2021-06-18, News China:


Lingshan

A county of Qinzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Pubei

Thousands of porcelain pieces were uncovered at a highway construction site in Pubei county on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of village looters to the site,[…]

2015 March 5, He Huifeng, “Around the nation: Lijiang, Xishuangbanna among Chinese tourists' top cities to escape pollution”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-03-08, China Insider:


Anshun

In 1904, a group of Miao arrived in the city of Zhaotong seeking a Methodist missionary named Samuel Pollard, to whom they had been directed by a Mr Adam of the China Inland Mission at An-shun, who later translated the New Testament into a romanized version of Hmong.

[1989, Nicholas Tapp, “The Religious Dilemma”, in Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:

The police in Anshun, a city in Guizhou Province, said in a statement on Sunday that the 52-year-old driver, identified only by his last name, Zhang, had been aggrieved over the demolition of his home that morning.

2020 July 13, Tiffany May, “Driver Purposely Drove Bus Into China Reservoir, Killing 21, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-13:

A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.


Pingba

A substantial minority of party members in the brigade were probably recruited during the Cultural Revolution; in Guizhou’s Pingba County, for example, 40.9 percent of the county’s 1,522 party branch members were recruited from 1966 to 1976.

1988, John P. Burns, “The Organizational Context of Political Participation in Rural China”, in Political Participation in Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:

A district of Anshun, Guizhou, China, formerly a county.


Puding

(Huang Hua-chen) and (Liu Te-hai), who participated in student enrollment examinations in (Huashu) District in Puting County, have violated the examination discipline, indulged in corrupt practices and caused a bad influence. The Puting County CCP Committee recently applied disciplinary sanctions against (Huang Hua-chen) and (Liu Te-hai) and publicized the case throughout the county.

[1978 January 31 [1978 January 28], “Kweichow County Punishes Dishonest Examiners”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 21, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 4:

If Beijing wins this one, remote valleys in the hills of Pingtang and Puding counties in the poor southwestern province of Guizhou could become the home of the biggest scientific instrument ever to be assembled on Earth.

2001 November 13, Andy Ho, “China vies to house the biggest telescope on Earth”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-10:


Xixiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西秀 (Xīxiù).

[…]rescuers watch as a bus that fell into a lake is recovered in the Xixiu District of Anshun, southwestern China’s Guizhou Province, Tuesday, July 7, 2020.

2020 July 7, “Bus in China plunges into a lake, killing 21”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-07, Asia & Pacific:

Guizhou Hongyingda Construction Project Management Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the finance bureau of Xixiu district in Anshun city, issued a 1.8 billion yuan ($250 million) five-year non-public bond Friday with a coupon of 4.8%, according to a filing on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s private disclosure platform seen by Bloomberg.

2024 February 26, “China State Firm Sells Bonds to Help Fund LGFV in Rare Move”, in Bloomberg News, archived from the original on 2024-02-26, Markets:


Ziyun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫雲 /紫云 (Zǐyún).

Found in southwest China among the karst hills of Ziyun county, in Guizhou, one of the country’s most poverty-stricken provinces, the cave is home to an entire village, all of the Miao ethnic group, leading an agrarian lifestyle controlled by its distinctive light and weather.[…]
Determined to develop the cave into a major tourist attraction, the government first built new brick houses beneath the cave for the villagers, then offered to relocate them to the town of Getuhe, and recently suggested moving them to the inner urban area of Ziyun, Liu said.

2018 May 14, Mandy Zuo, “China’s last cave tribe resist government attempts to move them on and let the tourists in”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-14, People & Culture:

A Miao and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun, Guizhou, China.


Zhenning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮寧 /镇宁 (Zhènníng).

For instance, in 1992-2002, the nominal GDP of Jinghong (capital of Xishuangbanna, in Yunnan), Dali, and Lijiang quintupled. The GDP of Zhenning county in Guizhou, which contains Huangguoshu Waterfall, also grew, but at about half this rate.

2011, John A. Donaldson, “Tourism”, in Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:

A Buyei and Miao autonomous county in Anshun, Guizhou, China.


Guanling

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 關嶺 /关岭.

More than 100 people have been buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in China's southwest Guizhou province on Monday, state media said.
The local government rushed rescue workers to Guanling county in the landlocked province after the landslide trapped some 107 people from two villages, Xinhua reported.

2010 June 28, Chen Aizhu, “Over 100 buried in southwest China landslide”, in Sugita Katyal, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2010-06-30, World:


清水河

ㄑㄧㄥ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄜˊ

ㄑㄧㄥ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄜˊ

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/

/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ hɔː²¹/

(～縣) Qingshuihe County (a county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China)


Montanha

Mong-chau, or Ballast island, bears N.N.W., distant 2 1/2 miles, from the west point of Montanha, and between them there are two passages leading to Macao, but both so shoal at low Avater as only to afford a passage for boats.

1861, “Approaches to Canton River, including Hong Kong”, in The China Pilot: The Coast of China, Korea, and Tartary; the Sea of Japan, Gulfs of Tartary and Amur, and Sea of Okhotsk, 3rd edition, pages 15-16:

The junk which was used in the raid on Cheung Chau, it will be remembered, was seized by the Portuguese police at Macao lying off Lappa. It was in consequence of these facts that the Hongkong Government made the strong representations to the Government of Macao and to the Chinese Authorities at Canton which resulted in a junk expedition made up of Portuguese and Chinese troops, assisted by several armed vessels, to the island of Wong Kam, known by the Portugues at "Montanha."

1912 October 4, “The Expedition Against Pirates.”, in Hongkong Daily, number 16981, Hongkong, page 2, column 5:

Macau will never be able to overcome its limitation posed by its tiny size, unless after 1999 the Central Government in Beijing would be generous enough, to make the adjacent islands D. João and Montanha part of the Macau SAR, which would increase the territory’s area at least three times.

2001, Gary M. C. Ngai [魏美昌], “Macau's Identity: The Need for its Preservation and Development into the Next Century”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century, Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 142, columns 1, 2:

1937 (3 December) Memorandum on boundaries of Macau relating to Lapa, Dom João and Vong Cam (Montanha) signed between consul for Portugal and consul for Japan in Hong Kong.
1937 (28 December) Japanese bombing of Montanha (Hengqin) Island and Portuguese occupation of Man Lio Ho village.

2016, “Timeline”, in Geoffrey C. Gunn, editor, Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow, HKU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 194:

Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam).[…]
The most curious thing: this small, economically more valuable part corresponds almost entirely to the landfill that in the 90’s linked the two islands, which means that the original land of Montanha and Dom João was mostly hilly and unsuitable for real estate development (as the images in these pages show).[…]
For a short time, two years later, the Japanese expelled the Portuguese, and at the end of World War II, Montanha and Dom João passed definitively to the Chinese side (in 1938, a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Macau tells us that General Chiang-Kai Chek proposed a landfill connect the two islands . . .).

2019 June 14, “Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese”, in Macau Business, archived from the original on 2023-09-16:

It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.
The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.

2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

A former island in Xiangzhou district, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, that became part of Hengqin.


Zhaxigang

jäʹshēʹgängʹ

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 扎西崗.

A township in Gar, Ngari, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.


Delingha

Another two counties, Wulan and Tianjun, as well as the two cities of Golmud and Delhi also suffered the floods. More than 1,000 heads of sheep were washed away.

[2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb, archived from the original on 2021-07-11:

On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest.

2017 June 15, Sarah Kaplan, “Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-06-17:

The estimate was set after scientists and government officials from Delingha in Qinghai province, which will host the base, met to discuss the development of the scheme, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.[…]
Zhang Biao, the deputy mayor of Delingha, said he hoped the project would provide a much-needed boost to the local economy.

2017 September 6, Laurie Chen, “Is there a price on Mars? China’s Red Planet simulator set to cost US$61 million”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-06, Society:

One of the two main hypersonic prototypes now under development in the United States is meant to fly at speeds between Mach 15 and Mach 20, or more than 11,400 miles per hour. This means that when fired by the U.S. submarines or bombers stationed at Guam, they could in theory hit China’s important inland missile bases, like Delingha, in less than 15 minutes.

2019 June 19, R. Jeffrey Smith, “Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-19:

In August 2016, from the Gobi Desert, China launched the world’s first satellite for testing the transmission of quantum information on light particles. The satellite was nicknamed Micius after a Chinese philosopher of the fifth century B.C. It fired concentrated beams of laser light to relay the quantum signals between two telescopes built at ground stations in Delingha and Nanshan, in China, 700 miles apart.

2020 June 15, William J. Broad, “China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-15, Science:

A county-level city of Haixi, Qinghai, China.


Datian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大田 (Dàtián).

If Fujian Province can be said to have a Babel, tiny Datian County can stake a pretty solid claim. In this 800 square miles of rural central Fujian, where fields of rice and tobacco grow in the shadow of tall mountains, no fewer than five dialects are spoken in addition to Mandarin.

2005 July 10, Howard W. French, “Uniting China to Speak Mandarin, the One Official Language: Easier Said Than Done”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-10, Asia Pacific:


Xiangxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湘西 (Xiāngxī).

ONCE, fresh fish was beyond the reach of the ordinary people in what is now the Hsianghsi Tuchia and Miao Autonomous Chou in the mountains of western Hunan province. Even at the wedding feasts of rich families, salt fish was a special treat. When the Miao people had fish for dinner, they would tack the tail up beside the family ancestor niche in the wall as a sign of good fortune, and the number hung there gradually became the yardstick by which a family was judged rich or poor.

[1966 June, Tu Hsueh-hao, “Breeding Fresh-water Fish”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

The local government of Xiangxi, the area of Hunan where Ms. Li lives, broke its silence on Friday, saying in a statement that she had checked into a hospital for psychiatric treatment at the behest of her family.

2021 December 23, Chris Buckley, “Fury in China After an Outspoken Teacher Disappears”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-24, Asia Pacific:

A Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Hunan, China.


Yongshun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永順 /永顺 (Yǒngshùn).

According to the report, the counterfeit banknotes sprung up in Yongshun county, Hunan, and quickly spread to other regions.

2011 August 16, Mimi Lau, “Police seize 'high-quality' fake 100 yuan notes”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-27, Latest:

More than three thousand people were evacuated in northwestern Hunan province over the weekend as heavy rain was unleashed on Sangzhi, Shimen and Yongshun counties, and Zhangjiajie City, according to state media.

2023 August 28, Bernard Orr, Ethan Wang, “Heavy rains, floods inundate China; Hunan province sees record rain, thousands evacuated”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-28, Environment:

A county of Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China.


Guzhang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古丈 (Gǔzhàng).

The floods also triggered landslides and mudslides in nearby Guzhang County, causing damage to houses and crops, blocking roads and disrupting traffic, state broadcaster CCTV said.

2023 June 30, Ella Cao, Twinnie Siu, “Cars washed away as floods wreak havoc in southern China”, in Mark Heinrich, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-07-01, China:


Baojing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保靖 (Bǎojìng).

Peng Tu-yuan is a commune member of Tuchia nationality in the Yehtsa brigade, Paoching County in the Tuchia-Miao Autonomous Chou, western Hunan Province.

[1974, “An Expert in Raising Tung Oil Trees”, in China Pictorial, number 7 (313), Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45:

Rains have pounded the Xiangxi area in Hunan since Thursday, with 314.5 mm of precipitation soaking Baojing County by 2 p.m., shattering a local record, state-backed media reported.

2023 June 30, Ella Cao, Twinnie Siu, “Cars washed away as floods wreak havoc in southern China”, in Mark Heinrich, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-30, China:


Jishou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉首 (Jíshǒu).

A rigorous 15-hour train ride from Hunan's capital city, Changsha, to the prefectural seat of Jishou, a shabby rural town of muddy streets and few cars, followed by a 90-minute drive on a snakelike strip of macadam through mountains, brings a voyager to Fenghuang.

1988 July 10, Edward A. Gargan, “Where Two Worlds Meet in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-02-20, Section 19, page 5:

A county-level city of Xiangxi prefecture, Hunan, China.


Luxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 瀘溪 /泸溪 (Lúxī).


Luxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蘆溪 /芦溪.

For two decades, self-proclaimed qigong master Wang Lin led a comfortable life outside the media glare - until photos were leaked last week showing him receiving billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma Yun at his villa in Jiangxi's Luxi county.[…]
The paper noted that Ma was accompanied to Wang's home by Luxi county governor Yao Hu. The county's publicity department admitted the government was keen to court Ma for investment. The paper said Wang was highly regarded among local bureaucrats for serving as a bridge to higher authorities and promoting the county among the elites.

2013 July 28, Raymond Li, “Spiritual masters cultivate a network of opportunity”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-08-03, Opinion:


Fenghuang

The official Xinhua press agency said that 86 people were rescued, including the 22 who were injured when the 320-meter, or 1,050-foot, bridge spanning the Tuo River in Hunan Province collapsed Monday. The cause of the collapse was under investigation, it said.
The 43-meter-high bridge in Fenghuang County had four decorative stone arches and was scheduled to open at the end of this month, Xinhua said.[…]
Part of the bridge collapsed across a highway linking Fenghuang County to an airport in the Tongren region of neighboring Guizhou Province, according to a notice posted on the local government Web site on Tuesday.

2007 August 14, “Bridge collapse in China kills at least 22”, in The New York Times, sourced from BEIJING Xinhua News Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-02, Asia Pacific:


Ongcông

Hong Kong (alternative)
Hong-Kong (alternative)
Oncông (alternative)
Oncôm (alternative)

Nôs tudo gostá de Ongcông.

Hong Kong (a city, island, and special administrative region in southeastern China)


نۇر

a township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China


瀍河

/ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰän³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/t͡sʰiːn²¹ hɔː²¹/

(～區) Chanhe (a Hui district in Luoyang, Henan, China)


Pingyuan

The North China Government was absorbed by the central government when it was formed in October 1949, but just prior to that time (in August 1949) Pingyuan Province was formed with its capital in Hsin-hsiang (in present-day north Honan).

1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Han Che-i”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series), volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 287, column 1:

(historical) A former province in China. Capital: Xinxiang.


Xiangdong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 湘東 /湘东 (Xiāngdōng).

The activities are not one-sided. In August this year, a delegation of teachers from Xiangdong district went to the University of Derby for a summer programme on the English language and to observe various pedagogies adopted by the university.

2016 October 25, “Far-sighted strategy: University of Derby is reaping the rewards of its hard work with Chinese counterparts”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-29, Special Reports:

* Changfeng extends its gas distribution pipeline to Luqian industrial area in Xiangdong district, Pingxiang city, Jiangxi province, China

2016 December 5, “BRIEF-Changfeng extends gas pipeline to Luqian industrial area”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-12-06, Market News:

A district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.


Lianhua

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 蓮花 /莲花 (Liánhuā).


Anyuan

Mao returned to Pingxiang County a year later, in the fall of 1921, and visited the Anyuan district. In an attempt to organize the miners in this area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, Mao spent a week in the fall of 1921 investigating the lives of miners and their families.

1990, Mao Zedong, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

The city of Pingxiang, which includes the Anyuan district of Mao fame, is home to eight state-run coal mines.

2016 April 11, Hannah Beech, “Labor Unrest Grows in China, Even in the Historic Heartlands of Revolution”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-04-12:


Hà Đông

Sino-Vietnamese word from 河東 (“to the east of the river”), from Chinese 河東 /河东 (Hédōng)

vi-etym-sino

Hedong (a district of Sanya, Hainan, China)

Hedong (a district of Linyi, Shandong, China)


Lubei

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 路北 (Lùběi).

Ma Aijun, former head of the Lubei district branch of the Tangshan Public Security Bureau in Hebei province, was convicted and sentenced for sheltering the gang from justice for years of earlier offending.

2024 July 4, Sylvie Zhuang, “China to press on with organised crime crackdown, keeping up campaign’s intensity”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-08, China / Politics:


Huangnan

The herder, Tamdin Thar, who was thought to be in his early 60s, self-immolated in front of a police compound in Markethang, a county seat in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, according to the group Free Tibet.

2012 June 15, Andrew Jacobs, “Tibetan Herder Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Government Protest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-06-18, Asia Pacific:

A Tibetan man in his late twenties called Phagmo Samdup set himself on fire on February 5 in Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo, according to Tibetan sources. It is the first self-immolation of 2014, five years on from the first self-immolation in Tibet of Kirti monk Tapey in February, 2009.

[2014 February 7, “Self-immolation of Tibetan father of two in Tsekhog”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 2014-03-28:

A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.


Jainca

He came from a town called Jainca, in the eastern part of Qinghai, close to the borders of Gansu and Sichuan. His father was Tibetan, his mother Han, an unusual combination. The reverse is often true, for Han men stationed in Qinghai take native women for wives, but it is rare that a Han woman marries a Tibetan: To do so she must break with her family, a thing almost akin to death for most Han. But then Lobsang’s father must have been an extraordinary man. He spoke of him seldom but when he did his words were respectful. His mother he spoke of continuously, with great love. He sent her most of his salary, which in Jainca probably enabled her to live like a queen.

1989, Paul Fusey Amor, chapter 30, in The People's Republic: A Novel (Fiction), New York: Walker and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 179:


Zêkog

On the hill behind the Hor Monastery in Zekog County, Huangnan stand four large stone sutra walls. Known as the Hor Sutra Stone Walls, they are the largest of their kind in China.

2006, “Mani Stones and Sutra Walls”, in Qinghai — Sourceland of Three Great Rivers [青海: 神圣三江源] (Panoramic China [全景中国]), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256-257:

A Tibetan man in his late twenties called Phagmo Samdup set himself on fire on February 5 in Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo, according to Tibetan sources. It is the first self-immolation of 2014, five years on from the first self-immolation in Tibet of Kirti monk Tapey in February, 2009.
Phagmo Samdup set fire to himself at around 9.30 pm in the evening. It appears that not many people were outside to witness the self-immolation. Police on patrol extinguished the fire and took Phagmo Samdup away, and it is not known if he survived, Tibetan sources said, adding he had been taken to Tsekhog county town.


Dunhua

The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China.
Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.

2019 December 3, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea”, in AP News, sourced from UIJEONGBU, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 2023-10-09:

A county-level city of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.


Wangqing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汪清 (Wāngqīng).

WANGQING, China – On Dec. 30, the mother of Han Jin O and Han Eu No was arrested as she tried to sneak back into North Korea with a sack of rice on her back and her children by her side.

1999 February 11, John Pomfret, “N. Koreans Export Girls for Marriage”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-12-07, page A30:

A county of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.


Jiayin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嘉蔭 /嘉荫 (Jiāyīn).

In 1976, I passed through Jiayin County in Heilongjiang and discovered that my painting had been copied onto a ten-meter-high tower that faced the Soviet Union. The original painting was acquired by the National Art Museum. Whether in terms of its publication or its acquisition by the museum, I never received a cent in recompense for this work.

2008, Shen Jiawei, “The Fate of a Painting”, in Art and China's Revolution [艺术与中国革命], New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145:

A county of Yichun, Heilongjiang, China.


강북

Sino-Korean word from 강(江) (gang, “river”) + 북(北) (buk, “north”).

ko-etym-Sino

Jiangbei (the region of China around the Yangtze Delta)


Shengsi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 嵊泗 (Shèngsì).

On 25 April at about 1600 hours [0800 GMT], the fishing boat (Shengfeng) No. 12 belonging to the Hsinhuatai Company of Keelung, Taiwan Province, blinded by fog, hit a reef and sank in the waters near the Choushan Islands, Chekiang Province. Rescue was organized by fishermen of Shengssu County, Choushan Islands, Chekiang Province, and all of the 10 crew members of the fishing boat (Shengfeng) No. 12 were brought to safety.

[1973 May 16 [1973 May 14], “Fishermen Rescue Crew of Sinking Taiwan Boat 25 Apr”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 95, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking to Taiwan, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: International Affairs, page A 5:


Daishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 岱山 (Daìshān).

A statement released Sunday by the government of Daishan county in Zheijiang province said it first received a notice on Sept. 9 that crew members on board the ship that was undergoing repairs had fallen ill and tested positive for the coronavirus.

2020 September 13, “Asia Today: India cases climb to 4.75M as recovery improves”, in AP News, sourced from New Delhi, archived from the original on 2024-06-19:


Dinghai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定海 (Dìnghǎi).

He recently spoke at a conference denouncing the destruction of Dinghai, an old town on Zhoushan island, near Shanghai, best known as the real object of British covetousness during the Opium War (Hong Kong was actually a mistake).

2001 April 20, Jonathan Napack, “A Firebrand Agitates to Preserve China's Memory”, in The New York Times, sourced from International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-10, Style:

A district of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.


Qingxiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青秀.

The government of Nanning, Guangxi, denied on Tuesday that court police physically assaulted a lawyer but still ordered the court to apologise and pay compensation.
Lawyer Wu Liangshu walked out of a Qingxiu district court half-naked on Friday claiming he was beaten by three court policemen in the presence of two judges and one other official after his request to file a case was rejected.

2016 June 8, Mimi Lau, “Update ‘No harm intended’ but Chinese court told to apologise to lawyer whose clothes were ripped off”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-08, Politics:

Qingxiu District is one of Nanning's most picturesque and culturally rich areas, renowned for its stunning natural landscapes and significant cultural landmarks.

2024, “Navigating the City”, in The Complete Travel Guide for Nanning (南宁), YouGuide Ltd, →ISBN, page 28:

A district of Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region, China.


Genhe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 根河 (Gēnhé).

A young Chinese woman has won praise on mainland social media for the manner in which she has coped with family pressure to marry.
The outpouring of online plaudits came after the 24-year-old woman from Genhe city in northern China’s Inner Mongolia posted a video online on January 24 of herself chatting with her mother and other older relatives.
In the video – which has been viewed nearly 2 million times – a female relative of the woman can be heard raising her voice and saying to her.
“It is best for you to stay here and take the civil service exam in Genhe. Why do you want to leave? You should stay at home. It is quite normal for you to be a civil servant and get married in your hometown.”

2023 January 31, Yuanyue Dang, “‘More at peace in a coffin’: 2 million marvel at Chinese woman who tells nagging relatives she would rather be dead than in a boring, steady job”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-31, People & Culture:

A county-level city of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.