Hengshan
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Etymology
From Mandarin 橫山／横山 (Héngshān).
Proper noun
Hengshan
- A district of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 518:
- Born in Hengshan, Shensi, in 1891, he and Liu Chih-tan built the Party there, and its isolated Red base became a sanctuary for the Communists at the end of the Long March.
- 1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Li Yiu-hua, translated by Maurice Michael, Rapport från kinesisk, New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 339:
- Then he tried to run away. He wanted to get to Yulin, 240 li away, or to Hengshan, 120 li away.
- , Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- Small arrowheads, small elongated scrapers, and microblades have been found in the Heiliut’uho Valley in Heng-shan Hsien, in what may be a nonceramic context.]
- 2001 July 16, “41 Die in China Explosives Blast”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:
- Investigators said the accident was caused by explosives illegally stored at a home in Hengshan County in Shaanxi Province, Xinhua said. […]
Officials in Hengshan County could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.
- A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
- 2004 August 26, Chiu Yu-Tzu, Wang Hsiao-wen, “Village missing after landslide”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 28, 2004, Front Page, page 1:
- In Hengshan Township, Hsinchu County, one person died after being hit by a falling electric pole.
- 2021 December 30, C. Chuang, “Frank Hsieh Once Again Snubs Legislature”, in Public Television Service, archived from the original on June 30, 2022:
- Meanwhile, Hsieh had time to post on Facebook, where he said that after the town of Wasaka in Tottori Prefecture and Hsinchu County's Hengshan Township signed a sister city agreement, the target of 140 pairs of sister cities was reached and he feels a great sense of achievement.
- 謝長廷則在臉書發文表示，在大阪轄區鳥取縣若櫻町和台灣的新竹縣橫山鄉締結友好協定後，台日締結友好城市達到目標140個，強調紥根基層也是很有成就感。
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hengshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1266, column 3