Nanping
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See also: Nánpíng
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: nänʹpǐngʹ
Proper noun
Nanping
- A prefecture-level city in Fujian, China.
- 1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32:
- Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the Yenping Conference—the Hwa Nan College and Hwa Nan High School at Nanping, and the Anglo-Chinese College and Union Kindergarten Training School at Yankow.
- 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
- We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.
- 2010 April 12, “China stabbings spur public call for school security”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 May 2022, World News:
- Parents burn paper money to mourn for school students who were stabbed to death by a man at a primary school in Nanping, Fujian province March 24, 2010.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nanping.
Derived terms
Translations
prefecture-level city in Fujian
Further reading
- Nanping, Nan-p'ing, Nan-ping at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nanping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2116, column 3