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Mianyang
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Miányáng
English
Alternative forms
en Mienyang Postal
en Mien-yang Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
myĕn′yäng′Mienyang 1200 2 Mienyang (myĕn′yäng′),
en Mian yang
Etymology 1
From en cmn - 綿陽.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Sichuan c/China.
en MAY 29, 2008 Tyra Dempster Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion https://web.archive.org/web/20220508162546/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-quake1-idUKPEK16786920080530 08 May 2022 w:Reuters World News The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 綿陽
Mandarin: cmn 綿陽 Miányáng
Hungarian: hu Mienjang
Etymology 2
From en cmn - 沔陽.
Proper noun
en historical en county p/Hubei c/China ; present-day Xiantao.
en 1996 Dali L. Yang Dali Yang Rural Liberalization Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Forward Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 9780804725576 32779186 74 https://archive.org/details/calamityreformin0000dali/page/74/ In particular, the communist wind of ‘one, equalization, two, transfer” (yiping erdiao) continued to blow in many areas, and land set aside for peasant cultivation (ziliudi) was still being made collective. One outstanding example of such abuses was Tonghaikou commune in Hubei’s Mianyang county: 41 county-level organizations and 25 commune-level enterprises made outright requisitions from production brigades and teams, which in turn preyed on peasants, taking property ranging from land and houses to sickles and chopsticks.
Translations
historical county in China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 沔陽
Mandarin: cmn 沔陽 Miǎnyáng
References