Meanings
- A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
For one learns that the first conference ever held on local methods of steel smelting has just taken place in Shangcheng county in Honan and has approved two native methods out of the dozens shat have been used.
1958 November 24, Anna Louise Strong, “China's newest crusade: Home-made steel”, in National Guardian, volume 11, number 6, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 32 more examples
The newsletter noted that (Hsu) and his comrades-in-arms had settled on a mountain-encircled brigade in Shangcheng County in January 1969. He had died in early 1972 while working with explosives to open up Tachai-type farmland. The Shangcheng County CCP Committee had admitted him posthumously to the party in May 1972.
1974 November 21 [1974 November 16], “Honan Daily Article Comments on Rustication”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 226, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.
2018 October 9, Alice Yan, “China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2018, China
Origin
- Mandarin商城
- EnglishShangcheng
From Mandarin 商城 (Shāngchéng).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 商城
- 商城county
Chinese Mandarin 商城
- 商城 (Shāngchéng)county
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