Shuangqiao

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙橋 / 双桥 (Shuāngqiáo).

Proper noun

Shuangqiao

  1. (historical) A former district of Chongqing, China.
    • 2007 April 26, “"Women's town" to put men in their place”, in Reuters‎[1], archived from the original on 06 August 2016, Life‎[2]:
      The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as "women's town," was based on the local traditional concept of "women rule and men obey," a tourism official told Reuters.
    • 2019, Zhijie Wang, “The Practices of Over-Leaping the Middle Income Trap via New Industrialization–A Case Study of Dazu District in Chongqing”, in Yining Li, Zhiqiang Cheng, editors, China's Reform to Overleap the Middle-Income Trap‎[3], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211:
      In 2011, former Shuangqiao District and Dazu County were merged as Dazu District with an area of 1436 km² and a population 1.03 million.

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