Minquan

Min·quan
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proper noun

A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

    Raised in a Christian home in Henan Province, Mr. Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”

    2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2012, Asia Pacific
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    Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^([sic – meaning Huangchuang]) [translating 黃莊 /黄庄] brigade of Lungtang [translating 龍塘 /龙塘 (Lóngtáng)] commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.

    [1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “A Despicable Act--Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four's' Exploitation of the Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 5

    In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.

    1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148

Origin

  1. Mandarin民權 /民权
  2. EnglishMinquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權 /民权 (Mínquán).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 民權 /民权
  • 民權 /民权 (Mínquán)county
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