Taipingxi

English

Alternative forms

• T'ai-p'ing-hsi (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 太平溪 (Tàipíngxī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtaɪpɪŋˈʃiː/

Proper noun

Taipingxi

1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • [1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎^[1], University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 532:

     In the fifth year of K'ang-hsi [1666] Huang Yü-hsüan, the magistrate, established the three t'u of T'ai-p'ing Hsi Hsiang, restoring the original number.]

   • 1988, Kenneth Lieberthal, Michel Oksenberg, Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structures, and Processes‎^[2], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 314:

     On the issue of a dam site, the YVPO and those who build protective engineering projects (fanghu gongcheng) favored the Taipingxi site; the shipping and construction departments favored the Sandouping site; and others felt that they lacked sufficient information to make a well-grounded decision.

   • 1996, Simon Winchester, The River at the Center of the World‎^[3], New York: Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:

     Two years later still came the recommendation that the dam be built at yet another place, this one called Taipingxi: on this site the builders would need less concrete, but there would have to be more costly excavation. Taipingxi the generals also liked: they could set up lots of antiaircraft guns here, they reported. But the excavation costs scuppered this choice a year or so later.

   • 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^[4], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:

     Taipingxi Township, Yichang County, provided experience from developing tea farms on which relocatees can be resettled.

   • 2018 April 29, “Xi calls for maintaining new development philosophy, winning ‘three tough battles’”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China‎^[5], archived from the original on 01 April 2022:

     President Xi Jinping takes a wooden club used to beat clothes in washing from a villager and talks with villagers at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018. Xujiachong is a village for people relocated to make way for the construction of the Three Gorges project.[...]
     President Xi Jinping talks with residents at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018.[...]
     President Xi Jinping talks with village officials at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018.

2. A village in Taipingxi, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

Synonyms

• T'ai-p'ing-ch'i

Translations

town in central China; village in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太平溪 (Tàipíngxī)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can