Linwei

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See also: línwēi and línwéi

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Etymology

From Mandarin 臨渭 / 临渭.

Proper noun

Linwei

  1. A district of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • 2010 September 2, Priscilla Jiao, “Book on dam's relocated victims lands author in jail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 16, 2024:
      Former reporter Xie Zhaoping , 55, has been detained at the Linwei district police station in Weinan , Shaanxi , for 'illegal business' after publishing Large Migration, a 100,000-word book, in May.
    • 2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
      In one case reported on December 1, 1997, Judge Zhao Huanchi of Minsheng Road Court in the Linwei district, Shanxi, issued a subpoena on November 4 to the manager of Weinan Food Service Company, requesting that the manager come to the court. On the next day, however, the company sent a letter to Zhao arguing that, according to a recent document of the Linwei district government, any court’s subpoena first had to have permission from the district leaders.
    • 2022, Sha Yao, translated by Li Guicang, Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :
      In 2005 the Bureau of Culture of Linwei District of the City of Weinan, sensing the importance attached by the central government to ICH, submitted an application package and succeeded in listing Huaxian shadow puppetry as a national ICH project in 2006.
    • 2024 May 29, Haijun Jiang, Xuming Wang, Yaohua Yang, Xuan Pan, Shaoying Liu, Jiqi Lu, “Tscherskia ningshaanensis: A neglected species based on phylogenetic and taxonomic analysis of Tscherskia and Cansumys (Cricetidae, Rodentia)”, in Melissa TR Hawkins, editor, Zoosystematics and Evolution, published 2024, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1237, column 1:
      The earliest known species of Tscherskia (T. sp.) was found in the Late Pliocene (2.58-3.60 Ma) from the Youhe Formation (ca. 3.40— 2.59 Ma) (Yue and Xue 1996; Xie et al. 2021) in Linwei District, Weinan, Shaanxi Province, China.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Linwei.

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