Lucheng
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Etymology 1
From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陸城 / 陆城 (Lùchéng).
Proper noun
Lucheng
- A subdistrict of Yidu, Yichang, Hubei, China.
Translations
subdistrict in central China
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Lucheng
- A district of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
- 2015 August 27, Chris Buckley, “Lawyer Who Represented Churches in China Is Missing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 29, 2015, Asia Pacific:
- In a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Yang urged the government in Wenzhou to release Mr. Zhang and his assistant, Liu Peng, who is also missing. Police officers in Lucheng District, Wenzhou, where the two men were last seen, either refused to say anything or said they did not know anything when called.
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Etymology 3
Proper noun
Lucheng
- A district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
- 1966, William Hinton, “Preface”, in Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Vintage Books, →OCLC, →OL, page ix:
- THIS BOOK is based on extensive notes gathered in the village of Long Bow, Lucheng County, Shansi Province, China, during the spring and summer of 1948.* At that time, local land reform, which had already been in progress for two years, was under investigation by a work team dispatched jointly by the People's Government and the Communist Party Committee of Lucheng County.
- 2016, Andrew T. Kaiser, “The Boxer Turmoil (1900)”, in The Rushing on of the Purposes of God: Christian Missions in Shanxi since 1876, Pickwick Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:
- The many hardships endured by the refugee Shanxi missionaries, as well as the faith with which they faced those trials, are both evident in E. J. Cooper's (CIM in Lucheng near modern day Changzhi) August 18, 1900 letter to his mother.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lucheng.
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References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lucheng or Lu-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1092, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lucheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1798, column 2