Lankao
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 蘭考/兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Proper noun
[edit]Lankao
- A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
- 1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs[1], volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:
- IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.
- 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71][2], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:
- Lankao County in Honan
In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.
- 2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters[3], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Emerging Markets:
- “The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lankao.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lankao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1684, column 1