Liangping
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See also: Liǎngpíng
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Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 梁平 (Liángpíng).
Proper noun
Liangping
- A district of Chongqing, China.
- 1978 August 8 [1978 July 29], “Education Ministry Praises Youth for Saving Collective Property”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →OCLC, page E 18:
- Ho Yun-kang was a first grader at a junior middle school in Liangping County, Szechwan Province.
- 2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:
- Many of the travelers on the passenger boats and buses leaving Chongqing for towns along the river and interior counties like Kaixian and Liangping are on their way to visit their lao jia, their family's town of origin, a place they may have left for university or which their grandparents fled in wartime.
- 2008 May 12, Lindsay Beck, Guo Shipeng, Darren Schuettler, “China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 October 2022, World News:
- China’s official Xinhua news agency said the deaths occurred when two primary schools toppled in Liangping county of Chongqing, a municipality of 30 million that neighbours Sichuan.
- 2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 November 2015, Travel:
- After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liangping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1728, column 3