Mengzi

alternative Meng-tzu

1. The Chinese philosopher Mencius.
2. A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.

alternative dated Mengtsz · alternative dated Mengtzu · alternative obsolete Mongtze · alternative obsolete Montze · alternative obsolete Monse · alternative obsolete Mungçu · alternative Meng-tzu

1. A county-level city of Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.

   “Yunnan is a forgotten province, a piece of China mislaid by the world,” wrote the British novelist Stella Benson when she was living in Mengzi, not far from the Vietnamese border, in the 1920s.

   2024 June 22, Peter Neville-Hadley, “‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024, Travel

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   Since the Peasant Night School of Fine Arts in Hsinan Commune of Mengtzu County in Yunnan Province was set up in 1972, its students have created more than two hundred works of art and held four exhibitions of traditional Chinese paintings, New-Year pictures, scissor-cuts, wood carvings and clay sculptures.

   中国文学

   [1975, “A Peasant Night School of Fine Arts”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 5, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90