Dingxiang

alternative Ting-hsiang

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

   In neighbouring Xinxian prefecture, immediately to the south of Yanbei, is Hengshan brigade, Dingxiang county.

   1992, Simon G. Powell, “Yanbei prefecture: specialised production”, in Agricultural Reform in China: From Communes to Commodity Economy, 1978-1990 (Studies on East Asia), Manchester University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179

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   I knew a young woman of twenty who lived in the town of Tinghsiang in the province of Shansi. She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month.

   [1960, Suzanne Labin, “The Schoolmistress Shuen, the Midwife Yu, the Feminist Mee and a Group of Chinese Women”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 312

   In the memorial speech Chang Chen said: Comrade Chang Lien-kuei was a native of Tinghsiang County, Shansi Province. As a youngster, he actively took part in revolutionary activities. He was admitted to the CCP in December 1935. He had served successively as secretary of the Tinghsiang County CCP Committee, secretary of the second area party committee of the Peiyueh District of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei border region and concurrently political commissar of the Second Military District, PLA political commissar, vice minister of the First Ministry of Machine Building and the Second Ministry of Machine Building, and vice minister of the Third Ministry of Machine Building.

   [1978 May 8 [1978 May 4], “Leaders Attend Memorial Service for Chang Lien-kuei”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 89, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 1

   The mural in the Holingor Han tomb shows that toward the end of the Eastern Han at the latest Dingxiang 定襄 Prefecture (in the north of modern Shanxi, transferred there from Inner Mongolia) also had mulberry cultivation.

   1982, Zhongshu Wang, translated by K. C. Chang et al., Han Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58