Xiuwu
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 修武 (Xiūwǔ).
Proper noun
Xiuwu
- A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
- 1980 July, Tingjun Hou, “Blended Clay Porcelain”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:
- THE ancient art, lost for nearly 1,000 years, of blending clays so that the design is embodied in the porcelain article like a colored pattern into woven cloth, has been revived in its original home, Dangyangyu, Xiuwu county, Henan province.
- , Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:
- Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty.]
- 1985 January 7, Michael Weisskopf, “ONE COUPLE, ONE CHILD: Second of Three Articles Abortion Policy Tears At China's Society”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-03:
- When women in a Yellow River community of Henan Province fled in advance of a "high tide" last spring, Xiuwu County officials tore off roofs of their houses and knocked down walls with tractors, according to a Chinese medical staffer who witnessed the wrecking.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiuwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1