Xinyang

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See also: xìnyǎng and Xìnyáng

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 信陽 / 信阳 (Xìnyáng).

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Xinyang

  1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
    • 1996, Jasper Becker, “An Overview of the Famine”, in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
      In Henan’s Xinyang prefecture, one of the worst affected areas in the country, the Party Secretary Lu Xianwen would travel to local communes and order in advance elaborate banquets of twenty-four courses, according to Party documents. Only at the village level did the lowest officials such as production team leaders sometimes starve to death.
    • 2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-09, Asia Pacific‎:
      Mr. Xi bowed in tribute at a memorial for 130,000 fighters from this area in central China who gave their lives for the Communist cause. But the estimated one million peasants who starved to death in Xinyang, after Mao’s Great Leap Forward spawned the biggest famine in modern times, went unnoted in official reports about the visit.

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  1. ^ “China”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 16, 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42, columns 1, 3:Conventional/Wade-Giles Pinyin [] Hsin-yang (locally P'ing-ch'iao).......Xinyang (locally Pingqiao)

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