Shanyang

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/ʃænˈjæŋ//ʃɑn-//jɑŋ/

proper noun

A district of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Shan-yang

  1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.

    The guerrilla base in southern Shensi was founded by a part of the main force of the Central Plains Liberation Army and included Lushih and Hsichuan in western Honan and Lonan and Shanyang in southern Shensi.

    1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 118
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    My presumption is that this same mechanism was at work in two counties in Shaanxi Province, as recorded in county gazetteers. In Qianyang County, during the Cleansing of Class Ranks campaign of 1968-69 that put to an end the Cultural Revolution fighting, 152 households were newly labeled as landlord and 130 as rich peasant, while in Shanyang County over a thousand households were re-labeled as landlords or rich peasants.

    2002, Jonathan Unger, “The Cultural Revolution in the Villages”, in The Transformation of Rural China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65

    Sludge spewed into the Shuanghe River and Donghe River in Shaanxi province’s Shanyang county when the spillway collapsed early on Tuesday, Xinhua said.[…] In April, ore tailings from another vanadium mine in Shanyang county polluted and literally blackened three rivers, state media reported at the time.

    2008 July 23, Beijing Newsroom, “Vanadium mine leak taints rivers in northwest China”, in Guo Shipeng, Nick Macfie, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022, Environment

Origin

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 山陽/山阳 (Shānyáng).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 山陽 /山阳
  • 山陽 /山阳 (Shānyáng)district; county
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