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],
[
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]
}
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"word": "Hsinhua"
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"alt": "Tongyong Pinyin",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "district; town in central China",
"word": "新華"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "Xīnhuá",
"sense": "district; town in central China",
"word": "新华"
}
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"ref": "1991, Su Xiaokang, Wang Luxiang, “A Reader's Guide”, in Richard W. Bodman, Pin P. Wan, transl., Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series Heshang (Cornell East Asia Series), East Asia Program Cornell University, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 103:",
"text": "Chen Tianhua [1875-1905] was a young man from Xinhua district in Hunan province.",
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{
"ref": "2021 May 26, “The Tragedy in Small-Town China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-26:",
"text": "By official decree, Langtang is a contented place, a town of 82,000 spread across 24 villages in Hunan Province where extreme poverty has been eliminated, crime is under control and schools are prospering.[…]\nBut the people of Langtang experience a different reality. Incomes, while rising, remain stubbornly low, around $1,500 a year in the surrounding villages of Xinhua County, compared with the national average of $2,500 in rural areas.",
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"A county of Loudi, Hunan, China"
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"word": "Sinhua"
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"ref": "2014, Steven Crook, “A Forgotten Tribe Campaigns for Recognition”, in Taiwan (Bradt Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 223:",
"text": "On the face of it, Tainan is ethnically homogeneous. Almost everyone, it seems, is descended from Han Chinese who came to Taiwan two or more centuries ago. That's what most people believe, anyhow. The leaders of the Xinhua-based Siraya Culture Association think otherwise, arguing that many Tainan folk are indigenous even if they don't know it.[...]You won't hear Siraya spoken in Xinhua, but here are a few words to impress - or baffle - the locals: tabe is hello; tatalag means welcome; alid means god, while alilid means to thank.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 July 30, Steven Crook, “Handling Snakes and other Nocturnal Adventures in Taiwan’s Forests”, in The News Lens, archived from the original on 2017-07-30, Lifestyle:",
"text": "Harris grew up in Florida. “There were always snakes around, and I was always very interested in them,” he says. Seeing any snake in Florida was noteworthy, he remembers, but when he goes out herping in the woodlands of Tainan City’s Xinhua District, “with a decent flashlight, you might see a dozen individuals of seven different species. And more than half of them would be venomous.”",
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{
"ref": "2021 August 24, George Liao, “Fruit and vegetable market in southern Taiwan expected to attract tourists”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2021-08-25:",
"text": "The Tainan City Government is banking on a nearly completed fruit and vegetable market in Xinhua District becoming not only a comfortable environment for shopping but also a tourist magnet.",
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"word": "Hsinhua"
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"word": "新化"
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