Shangcai

See also: shàngcài

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上蔡 (Shàngcài).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shängʹtsī

Proper noun

Shangcai

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1978, George A. Hayden, “P'en-erh kuei (The Ghost of the Pot)”, in Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:

     I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.

     *In present-day Honan province.]

   • 2000 October 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Rural China, a Steep Price Of Poverty: Dying of AIDS”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-10, World‎^[4]:

     Working without permission, Dr. Gui Xien, a researcher from neighboring Hubei Province, drew 155 blood samples from farmers in Shangcai County in Henan, where blood selling is common; 96 of them were H.I.V. positive, including blood sellers, their spouses and children, according to another doctor familiar with the study.

   • 2001 January 11, John Pomfret, “The High Cost of Selling Blood”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2024‎^[6]:

     A trip with Zhao through a section of Shangcai County in southern Henan province, a region of small wheat and onion farms 600 miles south of Beijing, is a journey of sadness.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上蔡 (Shàngcài)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: शांगछाई (śāṅgchāī)

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