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Dongsheng
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English
<dab!>
Dongsheng District
Alternative forms
en Tung-sheng Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
en /dɔŋ.ʃɛŋ/ /dɒŋ-/ /-ʃʌŋ/
do͝ong′shŭng′
en Dong sheng
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization for the en cmn 東勝.
Proper noun
en district prefecture-level city/Ordos autonomous region/Inner Mongolia c/China.
en 1999 Hong Jiang Human driving forces of environmental change The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment https://archive.org/details/ordosplateauofch0000jian/ w:United Nations University Press 92-808-1035-9 99-6751 247710467 80 https://archive.org/details/ordosplateauofch0000jian/page/80/ Most villages subscribe to local newspapers, but when they arrive their contents are no longer news; it takes seven days to deliver newspaper from the League centre, Dongsheng, and more than 20 days for newspapers to arrive from outside the area.
en December 2, 2011 Lucy Hornby; Langi Chiang China's Ordos property bust offers warning sign w:Reuters https://archive.ph/ctVSn https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7B10XE/ 05 June 2024 World In empty showrooms of Dongsheng, Ordos' old city, saleswomen immediately offer 30 percent price discounts if a buyer is willing to pay for a property upfront and in cash.
en MARCH 6, 2015 Jody Rosen Jody Rosen The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City https://web.archive.org/web/20150917145902/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/t-magazine/ordos-china-tourist-city.html 17 September 2015 In 2006, the headquarters of the local government was moved to Kangbashi from the Dongsheng District, 20 miles north; bus service between Kangbashi and Dongsheng was allegedly cut off so that Ordos’s public officials would be forced to take up residence in the new town.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 東勝
Mandarin: cmn 東勝 Dōngshèng
Japanese: ja
Further reading
en 2008 Dongsheng Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1044 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1044/ 2
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization for the en cmn 東升.
Proper noun
en town county-level city/Shishou prefecture-level city/Jingzhou p/Hubei c/China.
en village town/Dongsheng county-level city/Shishou prefecture-level city/Jingzhou p/Hubei c/China.
Translations
town and village in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 東升
Mandarin: cmn 東升 Dōngshēng
Japanese: ja