Shanwei
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mandarin 汕尾 (Shànwěi).
Proper noun
[edit]Shanwei
- A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
- [1975, Cornelius Osgood, “The Man Who Retired”, in The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community, volume 1, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 370:
- He had reached the retirement age of fifty-five in 1957, after being first employed by the Government as a young man. Born in Kowloon about 1903, he was taken back to Shan Wei in eastern Kwangtung (Fig. 3.1) at age eight for his primary education comprising four or five years in a private school with over a hundred students.]
- 2005 December 9, Edward Cody, “Chinese Police Intensify Lockdown of Villagers”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2024[2]:
- Residents reached by telephone said Dongzhou, a farming and fishing village 14 miles southeast of Shanwei city, in Guangdong province near Hong Kong, was quiet Friday for the second night in a row. But checkpoints were reinforced on roads leading in and out of the village, leaving its 10,000 residents blocked in unless they traveled by sea or walked circuitous routes.
- 2016 June 21, Austin Ramzy, “Chinese Official Whose Arrest Stirred Protests Confesses to Taking Bribes”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-21, Asia Pacific[4]:
- The government of Shanwei, the prefecture-level city that includes Wukan, later blamed news media outlets from outside the Chinese mainland, including Apple Daily and Initium Media from Hong Kong, of “instigation, planning and direction” in Wukan.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Shanwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2886, column 1
- Shanwei, Shan-wei, Swabue at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.