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Changning
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Chángníng
English
Changning District
thumb|250px|Changning District in Shanghai
Alternative forms
obsolete en Ch'ang-ning
Etymology
The atonal pinyin romanization of the en cmn 長寧 Chángníng Long Pacified.
Pronunciation
en /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈnɪŋ/ /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈnɪŋ/
chängʹnǐngʹen 1952 Changning or Ch’ang-ning Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 370 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/370/ 1
en Chang ning
Proper noun
en district city/Shanghai c/China.
en 1969 Neale Hunter The New Dispensation Shanghai Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Cultural Revolution https://archive.org/details/shanghaijournale0000hunt/ New York; Washington; London w:Frederick A. Praeger 71-76954 963053473 272 https://archive.org/details/shanghaijournale0000hunt/page/272/ With the help of these repressive forces, Chang Ch’un-ch’iao’s regime managed to weld some unity in the administration. The Shanghai Revolutionary Committee was little more than a name, for it lacked mass support and roots in the districts and suburbs of the municipal areas. To remedy this, the formation of local Revolutionary Committees was given top priority. By the time I left in April, two key districts had set up such committees — the downtown area of Whangpoo and the western district of Changning.Opposition was still strong in the city. In Changning District, where I lived, it took weeks of argument and compromise to get a workable committee set up.
en 2005 Shanghai w:Insight Guides https://archive.org/details/shanghai00bell/ Apa Publishers 981-234-962-6 60534081 189 https://archive.org/details/shanghai00bell/page/189/ In an early 20th-century shikumen (stone gate) house on Lane 1376 Yuyuan Road is the Changning District Revolutionary Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and Editorial Offices of the Bolshevik ③ (Changning Qu Geming Wen Wu Chen Lie Guan: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; free).
en May 16, 2019 At least 9 trapped in Shanghai building collapse https://web.archive.org/web/20220613220719/https://apnews.com/article/fe3059fde4254385aca9fa26f9f1af1a 13 June 2022 w:AP News By early afternoon, 11 out of the approximately 20 people buried in the collapse had been pulled from the rubble. Their conditions were not immediately known.The building is in the Changning district of China’s financial hub.
en January 5, 2021 Eva Dou China’s tech firms draw fire for brutal working hours after Pinduoduo employee’s death w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20210105104159/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-tech-death-pinduoduo/2021/01/05/c68bdd76-4eff-11eb-a1f5-fdaf28cfca90_story.html 05 January 2021 0190-8286 2269358 Asia & Pacific Reached by phone, a staff member of the labor protection department of Shanghai’s Changning district said officials were investigating the case but could not release any detail at this stage.
Translations
District of Shanghai, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 長寧
Mandarin: cmn 長寧
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