Liuba
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English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 留壩／留坝 (Liúbà).
Proper noun
Liuba
- A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
- 2013, Adeline Herrou, translated by Livia Kohn, A World of Their Own: Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China, Three Pines Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:
- The initial motivation to go on a pilgrimage is also often twofold: one cannot pass Hanzhong without going to the Zhangliangmiao in Liuba County, and it is good to go to a holy place if one has a sick mother or a child of marriageable age.
- 2019, Yingcong Dai, “Mingliang's Fall and Nayancheng's Debut at the War Front”, in The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:
- On arriving in Hanzhong, Yongbao rushed into the Qinling Mountains to fight Zhang Hanchao. […] When the two met at the seat of Liuba county after the battle, they quarreled bitterly: Yongbao accused Mingliang of not having come to his rescue sooner, and Mingliang blamed Yongbao for being defeated by the rebels.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Liuba.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liuba”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1757, column 1