Muping
See also: Mùpíng
English
Alternative forms
- Mu-p'ing (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
Proper noun
Muping
- A district of Yantai, Shandong, China.
- 1947, Yang Shuo, “Purge by Fire”, in Chi-chen Wang, editor, Stories of China at War[1], London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 71:
- He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas[sic] in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside.
- 2017 May 25, Jeff Desjardins, “Experts are hilariously bad at forecasting solar installations”, in Business Insider[2], archived from the original on 08 May 2022:
- A worker installs polycrystalline silicon solar panels as terrestrial photovoltaic power project starts in Guanshui Town of Muping District on November 17, 2015 in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.
- 2019, Weijian Shan, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:
- The village of Liushengyuan was in the Muping district of Yantai (the former colonial-era treaty port of Chefoo, briefly controlled by the Germans before World War I).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Muping.
Synonyms
- Mou-p'ing, Mowping
Translations
district in eastern China