Shangqiu

Shang·qiu
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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

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proper noun

alternative Shang-ch'iu

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

    Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.

    [1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 7
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    During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the number of middle school students in Shangchiu Prefecture was ten times that before the Cultural Revolution, in addition to universal primary school education.

    [1976 August 24 [1976 August 23], “NCNA Report on Honan Rural Teachers College”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 2

    Officials in the city of Shangqiu in Henan Province have admitted that police officers tortured a man to get him to falsely confess to a murder that he did not commit, official Chinese news organizations reported Wednesday.

    2010 May 12, Edward Wong, “China: Confession Obtained by Torture”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2010

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proper nounA prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin商丘 /商邱
  2. EnglishShangqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 商丘 /商邱 (Shāngqiū).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 商丘, 商邱
  • 商丘 (Shāngqiū)city
  • 商邱 (Shāngqiū)city

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