Pianguan

English Pianguan County Alternative forms en P'ien-kuan Pienkuan Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 偏關, a clipping of the original name zh 偏頭關 Crooked or Isolated Head Pass. Pronunciation en /piənˈɡwɑn/ /pijənˈɡwɑn/ GA pyĕn′gwän′Pienkwan or P’ien-kuan 1471 1 en Pian guan Proper noun en Piantou, a mountain pass and important gate in Shanxi, China. en county prefecture-level city/Xinzhou province/Shanxi c/China. en 1980 Atlas of Primitive Man in China https://archive.org/details/atlasofprimitive0000unse_A7/ Beijing w:Science Press 0-442-20013-7 122773228 16276975M 130 https://archive.org/details/atlasofprimitive0000unse_A7/page/130/ In 1958 and 1959 in conjunction with the execution of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) Water Conservancy Project, an investigation of paleolithic stone artifacts was conducted along the Huanghe River, from Togtoh County of the Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolian) Autonomous Region in the north to Pianguan County, Shanxi Province in the south, with Lamawan in Qingshuihe County as the center. en 2 June 1998 w:Jasper Becker Axed workers take to streets as province suffers https://web.archive.org/web/20230826150011/https://www.scmp.com/article/243049/axed-workers-take-streets-province-suffers 26 August 2023 https://www.scmp.com/article/243049/axed-workers-take-streets-province-suffers w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 https://archive.li/Utxn7 In the poor county of Pianguan in northern Shanxi, officials said declining local government revenues meant hardship for teachers and others paid from state coffers. Translations county Chinese: Cantonese: yue 偏關 Mandarin: cmn 偏關 Japanese: ja References Further reading Pianguan, P'ien-kuan, Pienkuan en 1998 Pianguan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2428 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2428/ 3