Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xishuangbanna.
Chinghung, meaning “City of the Dawn” in the Tai language, the capital of the Hsishuangpanna Tai Autonomous Chou, lies in an agricultural area on the lower Lantsang.
A Concise Geography of China
1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “The Southwest Region”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 1812 more examples
The Nationalities Solidarity also reported on July 6, 1958: “One of the two very first cooperatives in Hsishuangpanna, the Su-sheng Agricultural Cooperative of Ching-hung County, which was first formed in May 1956, had to face mass withdrawal from the cooperative in April and May 1957. Twelve of the 30 member households firmly wanted to withdraw."
1966, Peter Kunstadter, editor, Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations, volume I, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189For me to be able to see my ideas actually working in the Hsishuangpanna in Yunan^([sic – meaning Yunnan]) Province among the Thai nationality people, was, to say the least, an extremely inspirational experience.
1974 July-August, Gary Foley, “An Aboriginal In The People's Republic Of China”, in Michael Rose, editor, For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism, Republished work of New Dawn, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 197
Origin
From Mandarin 西雙版納／西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnnà) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-shuang¹-pan³-na⁴.
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