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Suiyuan
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English
Alternative forms
en Sui-yuan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn - 綏遠.
Proper noun
en historical A former province of China, now part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
en https://archive.org/details/japaninchina0000unse/mode/2up 1938 Japan in China T. A. Bisson The Macmillan Company New York 62 https://archive.org/details/japaninchina0000unse/page/62/mode/2up In the first instance, then, the Inner Mongolian princes of Chahar and Suiyuan turned a deaf ear to the blandishments of Japan’s agents. Instead they made capital of Japanese pressure by seeking political concessions at Nanking.
en https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse/mode/2up 1963 China on the Eve of Communist Takeover A. Doak Barnett Frederick A. Praeger 28 https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse/page/28/mode The critical state of military affairs has increased the importance of Peiping as the government’s headquarters in north China. Not long ago, General Fu Tso-yi was appointed Commander of a new North China Communist Suppression Headquarters, with its center here, to direct and control all military operations in the provinces of Jehol, Chahar, Suiyuan, Hopeh, and part of Shansi.
en https://archive.org/details/enemiesfriendsun0000vans/mode 1967 Enemies and Friends: The United Front in Chinese Communist history Lyman P. Van Slyke Stanford University Press 72 https://archive.org/details/enemiesfriendsun0000vans/page/72/mode/ Chang’s requests that at least a part of his forces be sent to counter the Japanese in the threatened province of Suiyuan were adamantly refused. Even these direct orders, however, failed to put Chang and Yang in the field against the CCP during November; and on December 4, Chiang returned to Sian, to replace Chang if he could not command him to act.
en 1980 F. Gilbert Chan China at the Crossroads: Nationalists and Communists, 1927-1949 https://archive.org/details/chinaatcrossroad0000chan/ Boulder, Colorado w:Westview Press 0-89158-913-9 80-13766 6196662 233 https://archive.org/details/chinaatcrossroad0000chan/page/233/ Middle peasants had also suffered misclassification in the administrative village of Tsaichiaai in Hsing County of the Shansi-Suiyüan liberated area. on
Translations
former province
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 綏遠 seoi1 jyun5
Mandarin: cmn 綏遠 Suíyuǎn
en Former political divisions