Dingxian

Dìngxiàn English Alternative forms en Tingsien, en Ting-hsien Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 定縣 Orderly County. Pronunciation dĭng′shyĕn′Tinghsien 1916 1 Until 1913 called Tingchow zh 定州. en Ding xian Proper noun en historical en Dingzhou, a town in Hebei, China. en historical en Ding County in Hebei, China. en 2004 Elizabeth J. Remick A Theory of the Local State Building Local States: China During the Republican and Post-Mao Eras https://archive.org/details/buildinglocalsta0000remi/ Cambridge, Mass.; London w:Harvard University Asia Center 0-674-01398-0 2004002433 54392588 16 https://archive.org/details/buildinglocalsta0000remi/page/16/ From the late Qing on, some local elites tried to find ways to make farmers cleaner, better educated, less superstitious, and more technically proficient in agriculture (Duara 1991; Hayford 1990). One excellent example of this, discussed in Chapter 3, was the eager welcome that elites in Dingxian county, Hebei, extended to the Mass Education Movement in the early 1930s in the expectation that it would rid the peasants of what the elites saw as their embarrassing backwardness. References