Xianyang

alternative Hsien-yang

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

   The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.

   [1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti – The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62

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   Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia.

   往前

   [2016, Bill Porter, “Onward [往前]”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72

   Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.

   2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2023, China's Economy