Runan
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝南 (Rǔnán).
Proper noun
Runan
- A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
- , volume I, number 56, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page D 2:
- Peasants of Junan County, Honan, planted more than 120,000 mou of sesame seed in 1970. Average yield per mou was 19.7 percent higher than that in 1969 and a new record for the county. Delivery of edible oil crops to the state by Junan County in 1970 increased by 14 percent as compared with 1969. The Tangchuang production team of the Lichuang production brigade of Junan County's Sanchiao commune set a record by turning out 222 catties of sesame seed per mou from a total of 60 mou planted is 1970.]
- 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
- Tian Weiqin had been stationing his army in Runan county since 1921. Conflicts between troops and the local community did not occur until the defeat of the Zhili Army in 1924.
- 2011 October 30, Ben Blanchard, “"Drunk" policeman's crash sparks protest in China”, in Ron Popeski, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 August 2023, World News:
- The policeman in Runan county, in the poor central province of Henan, has been charged with “endangering public security by dangerous means” after crashing his police van into two street lamp poles, crushing five people to death, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Further reading
- Runan, Ju-nan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Runan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2663, column 2