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Jingbian
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Jìngbiān
English
Jingbian County
Alternative forms
en Ching-pien Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 靖邊.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/ /-bi.ɛn/
jĭng′byĕn′Tsingpien or Ching-pien 1953 2
en Jing bian
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Yulin province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1 February 1978 1 February 1978 Shensi Villages Dedicated as Historic Sites Honoring Mao Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 22 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578783&seq=7 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Northwest Region M 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578783&seq=64 Former dwellings of Chairman Mao Tsetung in northern Shensi's Chingpien County have been opened to the public as historic sites. Chairman Mao stayed there between April and August, 1947, during the war of liberation. on
en JULY 18, 2005 w:Howard W. French Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150529184652/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/world/asia/whose-oil-is-it-property-rights-at-issue-in-china.html 29 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/world/asia/whose-oil-is-it-property-rights-at-issue-in-china.html 0362-4331 1645522 World JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's.The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert.Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 靖邊
Mandarin: cmn 靖邊 Jìngbiān
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Jingbian 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 1450 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1450/ 2
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