Linwei

Lin·wei
L1I1N1W4E1I1

proper noun

A district of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

    Former reporter Xie Zhaoping , 55, has been detained at the Linwei district police station in Weinan , Shaanxi , for 'illegal business' after publishing Large Migration, a 100,000-word book, in May.

    2010 September 2, Priscilla Jiao, “Book on dam's relocated victims lands author in jail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024
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    In one case reported on December 1, 1997, Judge Zhao Huanchi of Minsheng Road Court in the Linwei district, Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]), issued a subpoena on November 4 to the manager of Weinan Food Service Company, requesting that the manager come to the court. On the next day, however, the company sent a letter to Zhao arguing that, according to a recent document of the Linwei district government, any court’s subpoena first had to have permission from the district leaders.

    2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42

    In 2005 the Bureau of Culture of Linwei District of the City of Weinan, sensing the importance attached by the central government to ICH, submitted an application package and succeeded in listing Huaxian shadow puppetry as a national ICH project in 2006.

    2022, Sha Yao, translated by Li Guicang, Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=DfQxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT126

    The earliest known species of Tscherskia (T. sp.) was found in the Late Pliocene (2.58-3.60 Ma) from the Youhe Formation (ca. 3.40— 2.59 Ma) (Yue and Xue 1996; Xie et al. 2021) in Linwei District, Weinan, Shaanxi Province, China.

    2024 May 29, Haijun Jiang, Xuming Wang, Yaohua Yang, Xuan Pan, Shaoying Liu, Jiqi Lu, “Tscherskia ningshaanensis: A neglected species based on phylogenetic and taxonomic analysis of Tscherskia and Cansumys (Cricetidae, Rodentia)”, in Melissa TR Hawkins, editor, Zoosystematics and Evolution, published 2024, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1237, column 1

Origin

  1. Mandarin臨渭 /临渭
  2. EnglishLinwei

From Mandarin 臨渭 /临渭.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 臨渭 /临渭
  • 臨渭 /临渭district
Chinese Mandarin 臨渭 /临渭
  • 臨渭 /临渭district
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