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Liuba
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liuba
English
Liuba County
Alternative forms
en Liu-pa Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 留壩.
Pronunciation
lyō′bä′Liupa 1066 3
en Liu ba
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Hanzhong province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 2013 Adeline Herrou Livia Kohn A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China https://books.google.com/books?id=HXLQDwAAQBAJ Three Pines Press 978-1-931483-25-4 2012035092 855556521 28782242M 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=HXLQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 The initial motivation to go on a pilgrimage is also often twofold: one cannot pass Hanzhong without going to the Zhangliangmiao in Liuba County, and it is good to go to a holy place if one has a sick mother or a child of marriageable age.
en 2019 Yingcong Dai Mingliang's Fall and Nayancheng's Debut at the War Front The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China https://books.google.com/books?id=uzCbDwAAQBAJ w:University of Washington Press 9780295745466 2018038894 1162349898 153 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_White_Lotus_War/uzCbDwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PA153 On arriving in Hanzhong, Yongbao rushed into the Qinling Mountains to fight Zhang Hanchao.When the two met at the seat of Liuba county after the battle, they quarreled bitterly: Yongbao accused Mingliang of not having come to his rescue sooner, and Mingliang blamed Yongbao for being defeated by the rebels.
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 留壩
Mandarin: cmn 留壩 Liúbà
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Liuba 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 1757 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1757/ 1