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Ningshan
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English
Ningshan County
Alternative forms
en Ning-shan Wade-Giles
en Ningshaan
Etymology
From en cmn 寧陝.
Pronunciation
nĭng′shän′Ningshen or Ningshan 1327 1 Ningshen or Ningshan (both: nĭng′shän′),
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en Ning shan
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Ankang province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1971 Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East https://books.google.com/books?id=YVjRAAAAMAAJ w:British Broadcasting Corporation 0960-0388 10807079 11 Sian, Shensi provincial service 13. 00 GMT 11.2.71[...]The poor and lower-middle peasants and masses in Ningshan County overcame "calamities" [no details given] and scored bumper agricultural harvests last year.
en 1973 Jen Yu-wen Second Northern Expedition (1861-1868) The Taiping Revolutionary Movement https://archive.org/details/taipingrevolutio0000jian/ w:Yale University Press 0-300-01542-9 72-91299 760607036 473 https://archive.org/details/taipingrevolutio0000jian/page/473/ Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route.
en 2004 w:Tim Clissold Mr. China https://archive.org/details/mrchina00timc/ w:HarperCollins 978-0-06-076140-0 2004054291 84653110 7281283M 208 https://archive.org/details/mrchina00timc/page/208/ The tiny village of Zhongxi in Ningshan County sat high up in the mountains, miles from anywhere.
en January 4, 2022 Nectar Gan; Steve George Outcry over Xi’an lockdown tests limits of China’s zero-Covid policy https://web.archive.org/web/20220103085009/https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/china/xian-covid-outbreak-lockdown-mic-intl-hnk/index.html 03 January 2022 w:CNN A man trekked for 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the Qinling mountain range from the Xi’an airport, avoiding multiple village checkpoints on the way before he was finally spotted and taken into quarantine on December 24, eight days into his journey, according to a statement from the Ningshan county police.
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Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 寧陝
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Ningshan, Ning-shan
en 1998 Ningshan 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 2190 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2190/ 1
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