Meilan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 美蘭 / 美兰.

Proper noun

Meilan

1. A district of Haikou, Hainan, China.
   • 2014, Jamie Frater, “Crime”, in Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Astounding Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History and More‎^[1], Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 497:

     This is what happened when an unnamed Chinese man got into an argument with a woman over a parking place in the Meilan District of Haikou City, Hainan, China. She parked her scooter and attacked the man when he began shouting at her to move.

   • 2018 May 30, Keith Chan, “Haikou’s convention and exhibition industry hits world stage”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 10, 2019, Business‎^[3]:

     On Thursday, the woman, surnamed Chen, was convicted of posing a threat to public safety after she slapped the driver, Fu Chuanming, on the face during a dispute in December at Haikou, Hainan island, the website of the People’s Daily reported.
     Meilan District People’s Court passed judgment in the 29-year old,^{[sic – meaning year-old]} but it was unclear if she would appeal, the report said.

   • 2024, Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt, Patricia M. Thornton, “How to Think Xi Jinping Thought”, in Stanley Rosen, Daniel C. Lynch, editors, Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference‎^[4], 2nd edition, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages [5]:

     On paper, this has resulted in an unprecedented level of Party-state penetration, particularly in rural areas. Thus, Shaanxi's Yangchuan, with a population of only 170,100, constructed a whopping 387 Civilized Practice Centers, one for every 440 people (Yan'an Ribao 2019). Oddly, the difference between heavily populated and less populated areas is negligible: Shandong's Pingdu boasted the third-lowest number of people served per Center (765) (Qingdao Wenmingwang 2020), whereas Hainan's Meilan District, with half the population, succeeded in penetrating far less successfully, with each center serving a median of 11,635 (Haikouwang 2019).

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美蘭 / 美兰 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Meilan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.