Shanwei
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 汕尾 (Shànwěi).
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Shanwei
- A prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong, China.
- 2016 June 21, Austin Ramzy, “Chinese Official Whose Arrest Stirred Protests Confesses to Taking Bribes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-21, Asia Pacific:
- The government of Shanwei, the prefecture-level city that includes Wukan, later blamed news media outlets from outside the Chinese mainland, including Apple Daily and Initium Media from Hong Kong, of “instigation, planning and direction” in Wukan.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Shanwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2886, column 1
- Shanwei, Shan-wei, Swabue at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.