Dingbian
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 定邊／定边 (Dìngbiān).
Proper noun
Dingbian
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- , Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:
- Other motor roads include one running northwestward from Yenan via Ching-pien to the salt-producing area in the vicinity of Ting-pien. Another runs from Ting-pien southeast to Ch’ing-yang. A fourth road reportedly runs from Ch’ing-chien on the Yenan-Mi-chih road to Ching-pien on the Yenan-Ting-pien road.]
- , volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
- The land of the Hsiaotantzu brigade in Tingpien county was getting only about 100 kg. of grain per mu.]
- , volume XXV, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 2:
- Soil improvement often involves the movement of large quantities of earth, but the Chinese peasants face this task with a high degree of enthusiasm for socialism. A good example is the way the Hsiaotantzu brigade in Tingpien county, Shensi province, set out to change their sandy soil.]
- 1992, Xiaoping Deng, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 331:
- In April 1942 the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government established a Hui nationality autonomous area consisting of the fourth and fifth districts of Dingbian County and two natural villages of Chengguan Town.
- 2008 December 2, Yu Le, “Carbon monoxide kills 11 Chinese schoolgirls”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 November 2023, WORLD NEWS:
- Twelve girls were poisoned on Monday night at their school in Dingbian county of Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency reported. The sole survivor was in serious condition, it added.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingbian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 2