Liaoyuan

See also: liáoyuǎn and Liáoyuán

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Etymology

From Mandarin 遼源 / 辽源 (Liáoyuán).

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Liaoyuan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
    • 1969 April 23 [1969 April 22], “Kirin Barbershop Serves Peasants, Workers”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 78, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: Northeast Region, page G 2:
      A barber shop in Liaoyuan, Kirin Province, Northeast China, is described by workers, peasants and soldiers as close to their hearts. Changes in this barber shop show the tranformation[sic – meaning transformation] in China's service trades as a result of tempering in the great proletarian cultural revolution launched more than two years ago.
    • 2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China‎[1], Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
      They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Liaoyuan.

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