Sandouping

English

Alternative forms

• San-tou-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三斗坪 (Sāndǒupíng).

Proper noun

Sandouping

1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 1997 January 5, Zheng Nian, “A Flood of Troubles”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-01, Section 34, page 34‎^[2]:

     So it is not surprising that, in this century, China's leaders should dream of harnessing the river, taming its floods and turning its raw power into electricity. And now, near the small town of Sandouping at the mouth of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze, their dreams are slowly taking shape.

   • 1998, Dai Qing, translated by Yi Ming, edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People‎^[3], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:

     The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.

   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, “War Along the Yangtze”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎^[4], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:

     The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.

   • 2009 January 8, John Kemp, “Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 August 2022, Columns‎^[6]:

     Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Sandouping.
2. A residential community of Sandouping, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三鬥坪／三斗坪 (Sāndòupíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Sandouping, Santouping at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.