Xingshan
English
Alternative forms
- Hingshan (Postal Romanization)
- Hsing-shan (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興山 / 兴山 (Xīngshān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɪŋˈʃɑn/, /-ʃæn/
Proper noun
Xingshan
- A district of Hegang, Heilongjiang, China.
- A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
- [1969 December 17 [1969 December 16], “HUPEH INDUSTRY”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 243, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 6:
- The forestry industry front of Hsingshan County overfulfilled its production quota for timber for 1969--which was double that of last year--by 13.5 percent.]
- [1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East[1], British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
- HUPEH In the struggle to criticize Teng, Hsingshan County CCP Committee has persisted in running theory courses by radio. About 70% of the peasant households in the county can receive wired broadcasts.]
- 2020 March 18, Javier C. Hernández, “China Hits a Coronavirus Milestone: No New Local Infections”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 March 2020[3]:
- In a village near Xingshan County in western Hubei, a message instructing residents to resume work came blasting over a loudspeaker earlier this month, echoing across the fertile hills.
Translations
county in central China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xingshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 2