Yangpu

Yang·pu
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/jɑŋpu//jæŋpu/

proper noun

A district of Shanghai, China.

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alternative Yang-p'u · alternative Yangpoo

  1. A district of Shanghai, China.

    Now they, along with their 20-month-old daughter, Anna, rent a warehouse in the Wu Wei Creative Park, a government-owned space in the northern district of Yangpu.

    2014 May 1, Casey Hall, “In Shanghai, a Warehouse Becomes a Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2015, Great Homes & Destinations
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    Shanghai has built steelworks, chemical plants, and factories for machine tools. The one I visited in Yangpu, with 5,200 workers, manufactures about forty different types of machines; the factory is proudest of its grinding machines, some of which attain very great precision.

    1966 April 7, Robert Guillain, “Shanghai's Repentant Capitalists”, in The Reporter, volume 34, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3

    The actual turnover of leading cadres in district committees was not as sweeping as it was at the highest level of municipal government. For example, Chang Ching-piao, the First Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, after undergoing mass criticism and reform became the chairman of the Yangpu District Revolutionary Committee.

    1973, Victor Nee, “Revolution and Bureaucracy: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution”, in China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present, 1st edition, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 365

    Synonyms: Yangshupu, Yangtzepoo, Yangtszepoo

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proper nounA district of Shanghai, China.

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Origin

  1. Chinese楊浦 /杨浦
  2. EnglishYangpu

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 楊浦 /杨浦 (Yángpǔ, literally “Poplar Bank”), a 1950 clipping of earlier 楊樹浦 /杨树浦 (Yángshùpǔ, literally “Poplar Tree Bank”), after the name of a creek that formerly ran through the area beside present-day Lanzhou Rd.

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Chinese Mandarin 楊浦 /杨浦
  • 楊浦 /杨浦 (Yángpǔ)District of Shanghai, China

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