Wenchang

English

Alternative forms

• Wen-ch'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 文昌 (Wénchāng).

Proper noun

Wenchang

1. A county-level city in Hainan, China.
   • 1886, H.E. Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropoidæ or the Family of Bee-eaters‎^[1], →OCLC, page 58:

     Messrs. David and Oustalet state that its visits Southern China in the summer season; and Swinhoe procured it at Swatow, and says that it is supposed to breed in the Wenchang district, N.E. Hainan.

   • [1968, Kenneth R. Walker, “Organization for Agricultural Production”, in Economic Trends in Communist China‎^[2], Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 421:

     Entire administrative districts were ordered to adopt the same planting density, irrespective of the varying conditions within that district. Mencheong county authority in Kwangtung sent cadres to direct a collective to adopt a density known by the local peasants to be technically disastrous ( NFJP , June 26, 1956).]

   • 1978 June 4, L. Chen, “Has Peiping made changes?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     The highlight of the article is that the mass education measures used at Wenchang of Hainan Island were “teaching, criticism, debate, struggle, arrest and execution.” (Begin translation)
     When this anti-revolutionary revisionist element Lin Li-ming returned to Hainan, he made his native place Wenchang the “key point county” of his work and designated the Chengchiao (Township Outskirts) Commune as the focus of that key point.

   • [2002, “Soong”, in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 11, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15, column 2:

     Charlie Soong (1866-1918), also called Charles Jones Soon, was born Han Chiao-shun and was reared until he was nine in Wen-ch’ang, a port on the eastern coast of the island of Hainan.]

   • 2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 16 April 2022:

     On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping visited the launch site in Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan from which the Tianhe module was fired into orbit.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wenchang.

Synonyms

• Mencheong

Derived terms

• Wenchang chicken

Translations

city in Hainan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 文昌 (man⁴ coeng¹)

  Mandarin: 文昌 (zh) (Wénchāng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wenchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3435, column 2
• Wenchang, Wen-ch'ang, Wen-chang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Wancheng