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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 三門峽 / 三门峡 (Sānménxiá) Wade–Giles romanization: San¹-mên²-hsia².[1]
Proper noun
Sanmenhsia
- Alternative form of Sanmenxia
1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 641, column 2:The silt-laden, unnavigable Huang many times has broken through its dikes and changed its course, bringing famine with flood. In recent years the Chinese have tried to harness its power by building giant hydroelectric dams, notably at Sanmenhsia in Honan Province and at Liuchia Gorge near Lanchow. But work came to a standstill with the departure of Russian engineers in 1960.
1965, Chalmers Johnson, “Building a Communist Nation in China”, in Robert A. Scalapino, editor, The Communist Revolution in Asia: Tactics, Goals, and Achievements, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:In July, 1960, the dispute caused the Soviet Union to withdraw some 1,300 experts from China, crippling such enterprises as the Ch’angch’un automobile factory and the Sanmenhsia hydroelectric project (intended to produce the power for making fissionable materials).
1975, Oleg Borisovich Borisov, Boris Trofimovich Koloskov, Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 216:Despite the tremendous need of many Chinese organizations for technical assistance, and despite repeated statements of Chinese representatives concerning “losses” supposedly suffered by China as a result of the recall of Soviet specialists, the government of the PRC forwarded only two such requests in all of 1961; one for four specialists to assist in the installation of the equipment in the Sanmenhsia hydroelectric plant, and one for seven specialists to instruct in the piloting of aircraft used in agriculture.
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