Jingbian

Jing·bian
J8I1N1G2B3I1A1N1
/ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn//-bi.ɛn/

proper noun

A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Ching-pien

  1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

    Former dwellings of Chairman Mao Tsetung in northern Shensi's Chingpien County have been opened to the public as historic sites. Chairman Mao stayed there between April and August, 1947, during the war of liberation.

    [1978 February 1 [1978 February 1], “Shensi Villages Dedicated as Historic Sites Honoring Mao”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 22, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2
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    JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's.[…] The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert.[…] Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.

    2005 July 18, Howard W. French, “Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, World

Origin

  1. Mandarin靖邊 /靖边
  2. EnglishJingbian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 靖邊 /靖边
  • 靖邊 /靖边county
Chinese Mandarin 靖邊 /靖边
  • 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān)county

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