Shangrao
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See also: Shàngráo
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上饒／上饶 (Shàngráo).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Shangrao
- A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
- 2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-16, Asia Pacific:
- According to an account on the Twitter-like platform Weibo that first shared the video, the owners had been sent to hotel quarantine along with other residents of their neighborhood in the city of Shangrao, in Jiangxi Province.
- A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
- 2018 April 20, Louise Moon, “Elderly Chinese paid for destroying their own coffins to be burned as fuel”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 20, 2018, Society:
- Within five days, about 400 villagers in Shangrao county in Jiangxi province volunteered to use excavators to smash their own coffins under the watch of local officials last Sunday, it stated.
Translations
prefecture-level city in eastern China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shangjao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1743, column 3