Shangcai

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See also: shàngcài

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上蔡 (Shàngcài).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Shangcai

  1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
    • , Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:
      I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.
      *In present-day Honan province.]
    • 2000 October 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Rural China, a Steep Price Of Poverty: Dying of AIDS”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-10, World‎:
      Working without permission, Dr. Gui Xien, a researcher from neighboring Hubei Province, drew 155 blood samples from farmers in Shangcai County in Henan, where blood selling is common; 96 of them were H.I.V. positive, including blood sellers, their spouses and children, according to another doctor familiar with the study.
    • 2001 January 11, John Pomfret, “The High Cost of Selling Blood”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2024‎:
      A trip with Zhao through a section of Shangcai County in southern Henan province, a region of small wheat and onion farms 600 miles south of Beijing, is a journey of sadness.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shangtsai or Shang-tsʹai”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1744, column 1

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