Nanle

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proper noun

A county of Puyang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 5

Meanings

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

    In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province).

    1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175
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    In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities.

    2016, Fenggang Yang, “The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity”, in Christianity and Freedom, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181

    Meanwhile, the Weiquanwang rights website reported growing fears for the health of Henan Protestant pastor Zhang Shaojie, who is halfway through a 12-year jail term for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order" after his church ran afoul of authorities in Henan's Nanle county.[...] After officials seized control of Zhang's state-sanctioned church in 2013, sealing it off from the congregation, hundreds of Protestant worshipers from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing converged on Nanle county over Christmas to show support for the church, which was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Three-Self Patriotic Association of Protestant churches.

    2019 December 23, Gao Feng, Wang Yun, “Beijing Denies Report of 'Forced Labor' Hidden in Christmas Card Made in China”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2019

Origin

  1. Mandarin南樂 /南乐
  2. EnglishNanle

From Mandarin 南樂 /南乐 (Nánlè).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 南樂 /南乐
  • 南樂 /南乐 (Nánlè)county

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