Meanings
- A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
In the city of Changwu on the Shensi-Kansu border he executed three commanders from the Third Nationalist Army whose brutality had provoked the Red Spear uprising.
1971, Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova, translated by Steven I. Levine, Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1372 more examples
The threat of a war—it was feared a nuclear war—between Russia and China was brewing in the later months of 1968. (Actual hostilities broke out in 1969 and the whole school was evacuated.) Because of the general threat of possible nuclear attack, those of us who were left at the school were sent to Changwu County (a six-hour drive) to help dig fallout shelters.
1997, Melvyn Goldstein, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122Recent excavations in Dingjia village, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, uncovered a cache of twenty-four small sandstone Buddhist steles in a variety of shapes and sizes.
2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Catalogue”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1
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Chinese Cantonese 長武 /长武
- 長武 /长武county
Chinese Mandarin 長武 /长武
- 長武 /长武county
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