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Dengzhou
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Dēngzhōu Dèngzhōu
English
Alternative forms
en Tengchow
en Teng-chou Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
dŭng′jō′
en Deng zhou
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ 1, 5 Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Dengzhou/Teng-chou/Deng 32°41′N 112°07′E, romanization of en cmn 鄧州 Dèngzhōu.
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Nanyang province/Henan c/China.
en 2007 Civil-Military Relations in Today's China: Swimming in a New Sea https://archive.org/details/civilmilitaryrel0000unse_o0h8/ w:M.E.Sharpe 978-0-7656-1660-9 2006000015 237019354 120 https://archive.org/details/civilmilitaryrel0000unse_o0h8/page/120/ According to Ying Mingquan (director of the People’s Armed Forces Department of Dengzhou Municipality, Henan Province, and standing member of the Dengzhou Municipal Party Committee), a military standing member should play three roles: the role of publicist (xuanchuan yuan), the role of a military leader with local responsibilities (zhandou yuan), and the role of liaison (lianluo yuan).
en 02 May 2014 Mimi Lau Dengzhou villager creates fake but effective 'government office' to fight illegal land grabs https://web.archive.org/web/20140503025414/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1502644/dengzhou-villager-creates-fake-effective-government-office-fight-illegal 03 May 2014 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1502644/dengzhou-villager-creates-fake-effective-government-office-fight-illegal w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 China Zhang Haixin, 46, a farmer in Dengzhou, was arrested last November on charges of forging government documents, after years of quietly working to protect the land of villagers who felt they had nowhere else to turn.She helped postpone a land grab in her village by leading a group of petitioners to the cities of Dengzhou, Henan’s provincial capital Zhengzhou and even Beijing, starting in 2009.
Translations
a county-level city in Nanyang, Henan, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 鄧州
Mandarin: cmn 鄧州 Dèngzhōu
Hungarian: hu Tengcsou
Further reading
en 2008 Dengzhou or Deng Xian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 996 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/996/ 2
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 登州 Dēngzhōu.
Proper noun
en obsolete The city of Penglai in Shandong in China.
en 2009 Stephen Turnbull Stephen Turnbull (historian) The Sites Today Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC–AD 1644 https://archive.org/details/osprey-fortress-84-chinese-walled-cities-bc-221-16/ w:Osprey Publishing 978-184603-381-0 310157377 62 https://archive.org/details/osprey-fortress-84-chinese-walled-cities-bc-221-16/page/62/ Penglai, formerly Dengzhou, is an attractive place on the coast with a fine fortified harbour that is currently being restored. It is accessible from the city of Yantai, which has a convenient airport.
Related terms
en Denglai
Translations
a city in Shandong, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 登州
Mandarin: cmn 登州 Dēngzhōu
References