Mount Mogan

English

Etymology

Partial calque from Mandarin 莫干山 (Mògān Shān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mǔʹgänʹ

Proper noun

Mount Mogan

1. A mountain in Deqing, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China.
   • 2011, Ezra F. Vogel, “Accelerating Economic Growth and Opening, 1982–1989”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China‎^[1], Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 459:

     In August 1982, in response to a Chinese request, the World Bank assembled at Moganshan (Mount Mogan, in Zhejiang province) leading specialists from Eastern Europe and elsewhere who had the theoretical perspective and practical experience to discuss overall problems in the reform of socialist systems.

   • [2012 April 12, Justin Bergman, “A Lofty Retreat From Sweltering Shanghai”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 April 2012, Travel‎^[3]:

     FOLLOWING in the footsteps of foreign missionaries, Chinese gangsters and Chiang Kai-shek, I traveled to the mountain outpost of Moganshan looking for a breather from full-throttle Shanghai.]

   • 2021 May 29, Cheryl Heng, “Chinese ultramarathon deaths turn spotlight onto runners’ safety and leave some questioning their future in the sport”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 29, 2021, China‎^[5]:

     She completed a 35km (21.7 miles) race on Mount Mogan, in eastern Zhejiang province on Sunday – the day after the Gansu tragedy – but now plans to stop trail running for the time being.

Synonyms

• Mokanshan

Translations

mountain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莫干山 (Mògān Shān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can