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Nanyang
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Nányáng
English
Alternative forms
en Nan-yang Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
nän′yäng′Nanyang 1283 2
en Nan yang
Etymology 1
From en cmn - 南陽.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city province/Henan c/China.
en 1798 HONAN w:Dobson's Encyclopædia https://books.google.com/books?id=EqYHTu3UhScC VIII Philadelphia Thomas Dobson (printer) Thomas Dobson 1205531229 639 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopædia/EqYHTu3UhScC?pg=PA639 In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy.
en November 21, 2015 Chris Buckley China’s Nuclear Vision Collides With Villagers’ Fears w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20151122033701/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/asia/chinas-nuclear-vision-collides-with-villagers-fears.html 22 November 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/asia/chinas-nuclear-vision-collides-with-villagers-fears.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Other villagers expressed a mix of resignation and worry. Residents in Nanyang, a city of 1.5 million about 20 miles to the south, have also voiced alarm on the Internet and called for the project to be scuttled.“Here and around Nanyang, there’s opposition, but that’s futile,” said Li Chaoyong, 50, who builds and repairs homes around Hubin. “But if there are problems again like in Japan ...” His voice trailed off, and he shook his head.
en April 3, 2018 Frank Sieren Sieren's China: Facial recognition w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20240222110810/https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-facial-recognition/a-43234600 February 22, 2024 https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-facial-recognition/a-43234600 Technology China Southern Airlines has been testing the use of facial recognition technology in the city of Nanyang.
en 2021 Jianxiong Ge; Yunsheng Hu A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations https://books.google.com/books?id=iiASEAAAQBAJ 978-981-33-4480-8 2196-3134 1201384776 184 Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.
Descendants
Translingual: Nanyangosaurus genus
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 南陽
Mandarin: cmn 南陽 Nányáng
German: de Nanyang n
Hungarian: hu Nanjang
Japanese: ja 南陽 Nan'yō
Further reading
Nanyang, Nan-yang
en 1998 Nanyang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2118 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2118/ 2
Etymology 2
From en cmn 南洋 Nányáng.
Alternative forms
en Nan Yang
Proper noun
en Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
en 1972 w:C. P. Fitzgerald China and the Nanyang Communities Today The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean" https://archive.org/details/southernexpansio0000fitz/ London w:Barrie & Jenkins 0-214-65341-2 695393553 5335141M 189 https://archive.org/details/southernexpansio0000fitz/page/189/ In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
en 1985 Michael A. Goldberg The Backdrop: The Overseas Chinese and the Role of Land, Business, and Family in Chinese Society The Chinese Connection: Getting Plugged in to Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets https://archive.org/details/chineseconnectio0000gold/ Vancouver w:University of British Columbia 0-7748-0222-7 12485068 14–15 https://archive.org/details/chineseconnectio0000gold/page/14/ Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed.Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.
en 1998 Betty Lim King Prologue Girl on a Leash: The Healing Power of Dogs A Memoir https://archive.org/details/girlonleashheali0000king/ Sanctuary Press 0-9665954-0-8 98-96447 41032068 3 https://archive.org/details/girlonleashheali0000king/page/3/ I was the second of five sisters in an expatriate Chinese family in the Philippines, in the Nanyang or Southeast Asia, where throughout history Chinese were an underdog minority living a precarious, rollercoaster kind of existence.
Noun
en Peranakan.
Further reading
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