Xingguo
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See also: xīngguó
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興國 / 兴国 (Xīngguó).
Pronunciation
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[edit]Xingguo
- A county of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
- 1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs[1], volume 21, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, pages 24–25:
- HSINGKUO county in the hilly region of southern Kiangsi province was one of China’s earliest revolutionary bases. […]
Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.
- 1985, Harrison E. Salisbury, “A Walk by Moonlight”, in The Long March[2], Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
- Chen Yi cursed as he had a hundred times since he had been carried from the front in Xingguo county six weeks ago with a bullet wound in his hip which refused to heal.
- 1990, Mao Zedong, translated by Roger Thompson, Report from Xunwu[3], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:
- There are very few geomancers in Xunwu County; most of them are from Xingguo.
- 2022 August 10, Stephen Chen, “Chinese scientists say maglev ‘sky train’ floats without power using permanent magnets”, in South China Morning Post[4], archived from the original on 2022-08-10, Science[5]:
- The 800-metre (2,600-foot) experimental Red Rail in southern China’s Xingguo county, Jiangxi province, used powerful magnets rich in rare earth elements to produce a constantly repelling force strong enough to lift a train with 88 passengers in the air, according to a report by state broadcaster China Central Television on Tuesday.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xingguo.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xingguo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 1
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