Meanings
Pao-shan1
- alternativeAlternative form of Baoshan.
The Yün-nan T'ung-chih, ch. 189, fols. 2a-5a, states that the P'u 獛 savages had a tail several inches long, and that they lived in nests in the mountains and forests. Their land adjoined the Ai-lao 哀牢, or the present Pao-shan 保山 of Yün-nan.
1947, Joseph F. Rock, The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China, volume 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 53 more examples
Just as the Miao and the Yao had been pressed into Indo-China, the Yi were pushed out of the more eastern provinces of China by the slow advance of the Chinese. In Yunnan the Yi have moved generally toward the south. Up to the time of Mongol conquest in western Yunnan, the Yi had concentrated their population in Tali and Yungchang (now Pao-shan), (4) but today there are very few Yi living in these two districts. The most concentrated Yi population is to be fond in southernmost parts of Yunnan, the region inhabited by the Pai Yi.
1949, Chen Han-seng, Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 1–2Once across the Irrawaddy, the Chindits' operations went less smoothly, and in attempting a return to India the force had to use a prearranged method of breaking up into small groups. One of these groups went northward and came out via Fort Hertz; another went eastward and emerged at Pao-shan in Yunnan.
1953, Charles F. Romanus, Riley Sunderland, Stilwell's Mission to China, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 303–304Classified CCP documents come from the Party's highest levels and seem to be of considerable importance.[...]There is also the Political Work Bulletin from the 1970s which focuses on local problems, such as agricultural mechanization in a Kwangsi district and cultural works in a Pao-shan, Yunnan production team.
1976, Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16
Pao-shan2
- alternativeAlternative form of Baoshan.
Among the eight localities, Fo-shan district contains the urban center of Fo-shan, and Ch'uan-sha and Pao-shan both border upon Shanghai and are therefore subjected to urban influence, but the other localities are predominately rural in character.
1961, C. K. Yang, Religion in Chinese Society, University of California Press, page 101 more example
The most cogent remarks are those which deal with the fact of the Tramway projectors having misrepresented the scheme when negociating for the purchase of the land,- with the non-inclusion of Pao-shan in the limits of the Treaty port of Shanghai,- and the illegality of making a railway in any country without the permission of the legislature.
1876, Frederic Henry Balfour, Waifs and Strays from the Far East, Trübner & Co., page 81
Origin
Pao-shan · proper noun
- Mandarin保山
- EnglishPao-shan
From Mandarin 保山 (Bǎoshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-shan¹.
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- Mandarin寶山 /宝山
- EnglishPao-shan
From Mandarin 寶山 /宝山 (Bǎoshān) Wade-Giles romanization: Pao³-shan¹.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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