Minquan
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See also: mínquán
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權 / 民权 (Mínquán).
Proper noun
Minquan
- A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
- , volume I, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 5:
- Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang brigade of Lungtang commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.]
- 1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:
- In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.
- 2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 July 2012, Asia Pacific:
- Raised in a Christian home in Henan Province, Mr. Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Minquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1993, column 2