Nanning

Nan-ning English thumb|zh 南宁NANNINGCHINA Alternative forms en Nan-ning Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn - for 南寧. Pronunciation nän′nĭng′Nanning 1282 2 Called Yungning from 1913 until c.1945, en Nan ning Proper noun en prefecture-level city/capital ar/Guangxi c/China. en 1733 w:Eusebius Renaudot Ancient Accounts of India and China https://books.google.com/books?id=AhQ-AQAAMAAJ London 3893984 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=AhQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA61 Our Authors ſay there are no Elephants in China, which muſt be underſtood of the Provinces they knew, where, in truth, there are none. Father Martini writes, that they begin to be met with at Nanning, in the Province of Quangli, where the Inhabitants uſe them for War and for Carriage. Some there are alſo in the Province of Junnan ; nor is it a wonder that theſe Creatures, who ſo ſwarm in the Indies, and in Tungkin or Tonquin, ſhould ſtraggle hither. en 1925 w:Harry A. Franck https://archive.org/details/rovingthroughsou00fran/ Roving Through Southern China w:The Century Company 354 https://archive.org/details/rovingthroughsou00fran/page/354/mode/ The French were once so sure of getting a railway concession from their Langson branch into Lungchow that they built a big stone station—now the French consulate—and a stone slide not unlike the steeper levees along the Mississippi, down which French goods were to be slid into the boats that were to take them down the river to Nanning. en 1942 w:Lin Yutang The Wisdom of China and India https://archive.org/details/wisdomofchinaand030122mbp/ w:Random House 861470808 941 https://archive.org/details/wisdomofchinaand030122mbp/page/n960/ The story was told him by an old servant of his family who was from Yungchow [modern Nanning] in Kwangsi, and who came from the cave people [aborigines] of that district.[...]There are well-known Siamese versions of the Cinderella story, and Nanning is very close to Indo-China. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-04-13_16_14/ April 13, 1975 Expose Peiping involvement in Indo-China Free China Weekly XVI 14 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-04-13_16_14/page/n3/ Since an earlier Maoist military mission's visit to Hanoi in October 1974, the Chinese Communists have been providing massive military supplies for North Vietnamese. A so-called "Headquarters of the Chinese People's Support for Vietnam," headed by Wei Kuo-ching, was also established in Nanning in southern Kwangsi Province.[...]A training center has been operating in suburban Nanning to provide guerrilla and sabotage training for 500 persons at a time. en June 25, 2022 Paul Mozur; Muyi Xiao; John Liu ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220626010535/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html/ 26 June 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html 0362-4331 1645522 In 2020 in the city of Nanning, the police bought software that could look for “more than three key people checking into the same or nearby hotels” and “a drug user calling a new out-of-town number frequently,” according to a bidding document. en Synonyms en Yungning Descendants Translingual: Nanningosaurus genus Translations Capital of Guangxi Arabic: ar نَانِّينْغ m nanninḡ, ar ناننينغ m nan-nīnḡ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 南寧 naam4 ning4 Mandarin: cmn 南寧 Nánníng Hindi: hi नाननींग f Hungarian: hu Nanning Japanese: ja 南寧 なんねい, Nannei Korean: ko ^난닝, ko ^남녕(南寧) Macedonian: mk Наннинг m Polish: pl Nanning m-in Russian: ru Наньни́н m Spanish: es Nanning Vietnamese: vi Nam Ninh Zhuang: za Namzningz References Further reading Nanning, Nan-ning pn en 1998 Nanning 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 2116 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2116/ 3