Luoshan
English
Alternative forms
- Lo-shan (Wade–Giles)
- Loshan
Etymology
From Mandarin 羅山 / 罗山 (Luóshān).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æn
Proper noun
Luoshan
- A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
- [1978 September 29 [1978 August 1], Cheng Tzu-hua [4453 1311 5478] [程子華], “Take Up Arms in a Struggle for the Party”, in Translations from Red Flag[1], number 8, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Red Flag, No 8, pp 51-60, translation of original in Chinese, page 83[2]:
- Our army first beat back the pursuing regiments near Loshan County, crossed the Peking-Hankow railway from Hsinyang and entered Tungpo's mountainous area.]
- 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan[3], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:
- Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power. Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.
- 2019 February 28, Yanan Wang, “Chinese rights lawyer disappears on prison release date”, in AP News[4], archived from the original on 16 September 2022[5]:
- Jin said Jiang’s sister visited him earlier this month and reported that he was in poor health. His skin tone was darker, he appeared gaunt, and his lips were cracked, Jiang’s sister told Jin. He requested that his sister pick him on his release date and bring him to their ancestral home in Henan’s Luoshan county.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luoshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1806, column 2