Shannan

English Lhokha (Shannan) Etymology Borrowed from en cmn 山南 Shānnán. Proper noun en prefecture-level city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China on the border with Bhutan. en Lhoka en 1976 Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement https://books.google.com/books?id=R1TVAAAAMAAJ 53864202 4 People in Sangjih County in Shannan Prefecture are now working to complete in the shortest possible time a 30 km canal across 10 hills, 13 gullies and seven cliffs. en 15 November 1977 11 November 1977 Yang Chih-hsin Radio Plant's Attitude Resolves Consumer's Complaint Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 220 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578452&seq=7 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking Domestic Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: National Affairs E 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578452&seq=38 I brought a transistor radio on 31 March this year at the Chiaotien shop in Shanghai. In April I asked a friend to take it to my sister who lived in Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, so that she could listen to broadcasts from Peking. en 1992 Robert Strauss Yarlung Valley Monasteries & Sites Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit https://archive.org/details/tibettravelsurvi0000stra/ w:Lonely Planet 2nd 0-86442-139-7 1119739225 130 https://archive.org/details/tibettravelsurvi0000stra/page/130/ 1 Tsetong, the capital of Shannan prefecture, has merged with Nêdong into a sprawl of Tibetan and Chinese buildings. en 2005 Israel Epstein Israel Epstein Tibet My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist https://archive.org/details/mychinaeyememoir00epst/ 1st San Francisco Long River Press 1-59265-042-2 2005005132 58042900 278 https://archive.org/details/mychinaeyememoir00epst/page/278/ The second generation of Tibetan cadres arose, also in surrounding provinces, during the march of the People’s liberation Army into Tibet itself in the early 1950s. In social origin and motivation they were much like the first group, though in numbers much greater. Among them I met and interviewed Lobsang Tsechen, originally a carpenter, who in the 1960s became a vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; Zhen Ying, of peasant origin, who became the vice-Party secretary of Xigatse prefecture; Dorje Ben, a former “masterless man” (which unfortunately meant he could be mistreated by any superior without the protection of his “owner”) who became vice-head of the Lokha (Shan Nan) prefecture; and an industrial administrator, Shirob Watsa, assistant director of the important Auto Vehicle Repair Works of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who as a young man had had his knees shattered by order of his serf owner (after the democratic reform in Tibet they had been surgically repaired so that he could walk, but still with a bad limp). on March 30, 2008 The Olympic flame's journey to the opening ceremony https://web.archive.org/web/20230811181438/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/world/asia/30iht-30relay.11532603.html Asia Pacific June 19-21: Tibet; flame travels to Shannan Diqu and Lhasa. en 29 July 2018 Chinese premier completes secretive Tibet visit https://web.archive.org/web/20180729084226/https://www.efe.com/efe/english/world/chinese-premier-completes-secretive-tibet-visit/50000262-3705126 29 July 2018 w:EFE Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported. Translations prefecture-level city in Tibet, China Chinese: Cantonese: yue 山南 saan1 naam4 Mandarin: cmn 山南 Shānnán Tibetan: bo ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང