Meanings
- A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
Education in a Chenpa County Commune (Sian)[…] (Paho) commune, in Chenpa County, now has 250 per cent more full-time primary schools than before the cultural revolution.
[1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages A-14, 212 more examples
Zhenba County in Shaanxi Province once had a forest cover rate of 60 percent, and floods, droughts and hail were rare. Later, however, many trees were cut down to clear the land for farming when the county started to place a one-sided emphasis on grain production.
Economic Changes in Rural China
1985, “Rural Economic Policy in the New Period”, in Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in Rural China] (China Studies Series), Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 117A report on the county of Zhenba described the redistribution in these terms: 16 townships, each having 10 landlords and 100 poor peasants; each landlord owning 111 mu and therefore each poor peasant receiving nearly 2 mu.
1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 238–239
Origin
- Mandarin鎮巴 /镇巴
- EnglishZhenba
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮巴 /镇巴 (Zhènbā).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 鎮巴 /镇巴
- 鎮巴 /镇巴 (Zhènbā)county
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