Xincai

See also: xīncái

English

Alternative forms

• Hsin-ts'ai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新蔡 (Xīncài).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪnˈtsaɪ/

Proper noun

Xincai

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1974, Li (朱力) Chu, 田洁云 [Tien Chieh-yun], 在七里营人民公社里 [Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying]‎^[1], Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 121:

     His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one.]

   • [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

     In Hsintsai county, there was Wang Hsin-an, a soldier on reserve. A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south.]

   • [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945‎^[2], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 113, 319:

     One example of this type of dissension within Nien ranks was reported in Hsin-ts’ai County in 1845. A Nien chief in the county had led sixteen followers to stage a robbery in which they had made off with a sizable haul of animals, clothing, and bedding. […]
     Hsin-ts’ai County (Honan), 113]

   • 1990, Chen Yizi (陳一諮), quotee, Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.

   • 2002 August 25, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “AIDS Scourge in Rural China Leaves Villages of Orphans”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-11-19, World‎^[5]:

     According to unpublished statistics from the United Nations Development Program, the number of families living below the official poverty line in Xincai, the county that includes Donghu, skyrocketed last year, to 270,000 from 40,000. Breadwinners fell ill, and families spent whatever they could scrape together for food and care.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新蔡 (zh) (Xīncài)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xincai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 1
• Xincai, Hsintsai, Hsin-ts'ai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• caixin