Tongxin

See also: tōngxìn, tóngxīn, and tòngxīn

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同心 (Tóngxīn).

Proper noun

Tongxin

  1. A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia autonomous region, China.
    • [1972, Donald E. MacInnis, “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 170:
      On June 1 of the same year he again ordered his henchmen, Ma-tung and Chen Ju-chin, to lead a revolt in Chen-chia-fen, T’ung-hsin Hsien.]
    • 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:
      The first Hui autonomous county was set up in the 1930s in Tongxin, southern Ningxia, as a demonstration of the early Communists' goodwill toward the Hui.
    • 1996 May 14, Richard Tomlinson, “Poverty Meets Consumerism in Inland China”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022, World‎[4]:
      At the bottom of Ningxia's economic ladder are peasants like Ma Junyi, 65, who lives in a cave he burrowed out of a hillside in Tongxin county, 120 miles south of Yinchuan. The average annual per capita income for Tongxin's farmers is $50, which puts Mr. Ma and his neighbors in the village of Wudaoling above the government's official poverty line.
    • 2019 September 26, Emily Feng, “'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown”, in NPR[5], archived from the original on 26 September 2019:
      In August 2018, in Ningxia's Tongxin county, authorities attempted to demolish the Weizhou Grand Mosque, claiming it lacked the right building permits. []
      In Ningxia's Tongxin county, a rare female-only Islamic school once renowned across China's north-central and west is being readied for demolition after it was shut down last year to make way for residential development.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tongxin.

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