Baode

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʊ.di/, /-də/, /-deɪ/

Proper noun

Baode

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1970 December 16 [1970 December 7], “Shansi Peasants Emulate Tachai, Win Bumper Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 243, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, North Region, page F 5‎^[1]:

     In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain.]

   • [2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:

     The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have contributed greatly to defining the Northern Zone as a distinct cultural complex.]

   • 2005, Elizabeth Economy, “Environmental Enforcement in China”, in Kristen A. Day, editor, China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

     In 2003 in Shanxi Province, the director of the Xuanbo Joint Cokeoven Plant ordered his workers to attack a television reporter from CCTV who was investigating pollution at the plant. The reporter was rescued by a SEPA delegation that arrived shortly thereafter, which then ordered the local environmental enforcement group in Baode County to protect his right to investigate.

   • 2011 July 20, “China to add 1 mln tonnes of alumina capacity -NDRC”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 24 November 2023, Commodities:

     The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Baode county in Shanxi province in the north, a statement posted on the commission website showed. It did not provide the completion time.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保德 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paoteh or Pao-te”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baode”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2

Anagrams

• EABOD, abode, adobe, boaed