Changning

alternative Ch'ang-ning

1. A district of Shanghai, China.

   Reached by phone, a staff member of the labor protection department of Shanghai’s Changning district said officials were investigating the case but could not release any detail at this stage.

   2021 January 5, Eva Dou, “China’s tech firms draw fire for brutal working hours after Pinduoduo employee’s death”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021, Asia & Pacific

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   With the help of these repressive forces, Chang Ch’un-ch’iao’s regime managed to weld some unity in the administration. The Shanghai Revolutionary Committee was little more than a name, for it lacked mass support and roots in the districts and suburbs of the municipal areas. To remedy this, the formation of local Revolutionary Committees was given top priority. By the time I left in April, two key districts had set up such committees — the downtown area of Whangpoo and the western district of Changning. Opposition was still strong in the city. In Changning District, where I lived, it took weeks of argument and compromise to get a workable committee set up.

   1969, Neale Hunter, “The New Dispensation”, in Shanghai Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Cultural Revolution, New York; Washington; London: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272

   In an early 20th-century shikumen (stone gate) house on Lane 1376 Yuyuan Road is the Changning District Revolutionary Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and Editorial Offices of the Bolshevik ③ (Changning Qu Geming Wen Wu Chen Lie Guan: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; free).

   2005, Shanghai (Insight Guides), Apa Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 189

   By early afternoon, 11 out of the approximately 20 people buried in the collapse had been pulled from the rubble. Their conditions were not immediately known. The building is in the Changning district of China’s financial hub.

   2019 May 16, “At least 9 trapped in Shanghai building collapse”, in AP News, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2022