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Sandouping
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English
Alternative forms
en San-tou-p'ing Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 三斗坪.
Pronunciation
sän′dō′pĭng′
en San dou ping
Proper noun
en town district/Yiling prefecture-level city/Yichang p/Hubei c/China.
en January 5, 1997 Zheng Nian A Flood of Troubles w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20221201200930/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/05/magazine/a-flood-of-troubles.html 0362-4331 1645522 Section 34 34 So it is not surprising that, in this century, China's leaders should dream of harnessing the river, taming its floods and turning its raw power into electricity. And now, near the small town of Sandouping at the mouth of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, their dreams are slowly taking shape.
en 1998 w:Dai Qing John G. Thibodeau; Philip B. Williams Yi Ming The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People https://archive.org/details/riverdragonhasco0000unse/ w:M. E. Sharpe 0-7656-0205-9 97-23982 760659549 8054352M 44 https://archive.org/details/riverdragonhasco0000unse/page/44/ The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.
en 2002 Deirdre Chetham War Along the Yangtze Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/ w:Palgrave Macmillan 1-4039-6428-9 2002016939 474470844 8400279M 108 https://archive.org/details/beforedelugevani00chet/page/108/ The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.
en JANUARY 8, 2009 John Kemp Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp https://web.archive.org/web/20220827213711/https://www.reuters.com/article/columns-us-column-kemp/downturn-hits-chinas-manufacturing-heartland-john-kemp-idINTRE50538T20090108 27 August 2022 w:Reuters Columns Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.
en
en residential community town/Sandouping district/Yiling prefecture-level city/Yichang p/Hubei c/China.
Translations
town in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 三鬥坪
Mandarin: cmn 三鬥坪 Sāndòupíng
Japanese: ja
Further reading
Sandouping, Santouping
en 3-syllable words