Lueyang

Lüeyang English Etymology Modified from the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 略陽, without umlaut. Proper noun en Lüeyang. en 2005 Intergenerational Transfer in China Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success https://archive.org/details/unequalchancesfa0000unse/ 0-691-11930-9 2004050521 55286364 238 https://archive.org/details/unequalchancesfa0000unse/page/238/ 2007 Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China Anne H. Gauthier; C.Y. Cyrus Chu; Shripad Tuljapurkar Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves https://archive.org/details/allocatingpublic0000unse/ 2 Springer 978-1-4020-4790-9 85691352 144 https://archive.org/details/allocatingpublic0000unse/page/144/ Lueyang county is located in the Qing mountains in the far south of Shaanxi province, far from Xi’an, on the borders of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. It has a relatively small population of about 200,000. Before the Tang dynasty, Lueyang was occupied mostly by minority Chinese who were defeated by the Han Chinese, and most were forced to migrate to other places. In the late seventeenth century, the Qing government forced people in central China, where the population was dense, to migrate to southern Shaanxi, including Lueyang. Lueyang has been rich in natural resources, especially minerals and forests. Even though its per capita arable land is much higher than in Shaanxi and China as a whole, Lueyang is relatively underdeveloped compared with other counties in Shaanxi, and the standard of living is low. en 2009 Charles Stafford Charles Stafford (anthropologist) Actually existing Chinese matriarchy Susanne Brandtstädter; Gonçalo D. Santos Chinese Kinship: Contemporary anthropological perspectives https://archive.org/details/chinesekinshipco0000unse/ w:Routledge 978-0-415-69008-9 2008014953 751716937 144 https://archive.org/details/chinesekinshipco0000unse/page/144/ In multi-surname Lueyang county, by contrast, large family clans are ‘few and unimportant to village life’, the patriarchal system is weak, there are a large number of uxorilocal marriages, and there is a high rate of adoption. As a result, son preference in Lueyang appears to be weak, as evidenced by a sex ratio at birth of only 105 — which, as the authors point out, is ‘quite normal [by world standards] and very different from that in Sanyuan’ (Li et al. 1998: 4-6; cf. Li et al. 2000, 2003). In brief, one implication of this demographic research is that people in Lueyang appear to have learned, from the evidence of their own senses, that daughters, after all, are as good as sons.Perhaps one could say that if Chinese patriarchy, and all that goes with it, were to collapse in Lueyang county, it wouldn’t have too far to fall. en 2016 Li Huiying Son Preference and the Tradition of Patriarchy in Rural China: An Empirical Investigation of the Sex Ratio Imbalance at Birth Qi Wang, Min Dongchao, Bo Ærenlund Sørensen Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China https://books.google.com/books?id=zrvtCwAAQBAJ w:Palgrave Macmillan 10.1057/9781137550804 978-1-349-57144-4 2015026013 946358227 145 https://books.google.com/books?id=zrvtCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145 We have, nevertheless, spotted signs of change in some of the Han Chinese areas, such as in Meiwan Village of Hua County in Jiangxi, Lueyang County in Shanxi, and Yichang in Hubei, where different modes of post-marital residence are found.Lianghekou, a town in the mountains of Lueyang County in Shaanxi, also has quite a high percentage of matrilocal residence, as 265 out of the 1124 households (24 percent) in the township have sons-in-law living with them. en 17 August 2020 Alice Yan China on alert for Yangtze River flooding as storms close in https://web.archive.org/web/20200817120216/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097699/china-alert-yangtze-river-flooding-storms-close 17 August 2020 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097699/china-alert-yangtze-river-flooding-storms-close w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 Society https://archive.ph/uzKTA In the northwest, Lueyang county in Shaanxi province ordered residents living in ground-floor housing to move to upper floors to avoid fast-moving floods. en Usage notes en Lueyang can be considered a misspelling of en Lüeyang. A word made up of en lüe (zh ㄌㄩㄝ) and en yang would be spelled as en Lüeyang and a word made up of en lue (zh ㄌㄨㄝ) (a sound not used in modern standard Mandarinen July 17, 2009 v for ü https://web.archive.org/web/20110908232435/https://pinyin.info/news/2009/v-for-u/ September 08, 2011 https://pinyin.info/news/2009/v-for-u/ Pinyin.info Pinyin has the following distinct pairs: nü and nu, lü and lu; nüe (rare) and lüe are also used but not nue or lue since the latter two sounds are not used in modern standard Mandarin.) and en yang would be spelled as en Lueyang. References