Lankao
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Etymology
From Mandarin 蘭考／兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
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Lankao
- A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
- 1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:
- IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.
- 1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:
- He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.
- 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻, Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:
- Lankao County in Honan
In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.
- 2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Emerging Markets:
- “The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lankao.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lankao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1684, column 1