Shannan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 山南 (Shānnán).

Proper noun

Shannan

1. A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on the border with Bhutan.

   Synonym: Lhoka

   • 1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement‎^[1], →OCLC, page 4:

     People in Sangjih County in Shannan Prefecture are now working to complete in the shortest possible time a 30 km canal across 10 hills, 13 gullies and seven cliffs.

   • 1992, Robert Strauss, “Yarlung Valley Monasteries & Sites”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130, column 1:

     Tsetong, the capital of Shannan prefecture, has merged with Nêdong into a sprawl of Tibetan and Chinese buildings.

   • [2005, Israel Epstein, “Tibet”, in My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist‎^[3], 1st edition, San Francisco: Long River Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 278:

     The second generation of Tibetan cadres arose, also in surrounding provinces, during the march of the People’s liberation Army into Tibet itself in the early 1950s. In social origin and motivation they were much like the first group, though in numbers much greater. Among them I met and interviewed Lobsang Tsechen, originally a carpenter, who in the 1960s became a vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; Zhen Ying, of peasant origin, who became the vice-Party secretary of Xigatse prefecture; Dorje Ben, a former “masterless man” (which unfortunately meant he could be mistreated by any superior without the protection of his “owner”) who became vice-head of the Lokha (Shan Nan) prefecture; and an industrial administrator, Shirob Watsa, assistant director of the important Auto Vehicle Repair Works of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who as a young man had had his knees shattered by order of his serf owner (after the democratic reform in Tibet they had been surgically repaired so that he could walk, but still with a bad limp).]

   • 2008 March 30, “The Olympic flame's journey to the opening ceremony”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     June 19-21: Tibet; flame travels to Shannan Diqu and Lhasa.

   • 2018 July 29, “Chinese premier completes secretive Tibet visit”, in EFE‎^[6], archived from the original on 29 July 2018:

     Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported.

Translations

prefecture-level city in Tibet, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山南 (saan¹ naam⁴)

  Mandarin: 山南 (zh) (Shānnán)

• Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཁ་གྲོང (lho kha grong)