Yingshan
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Etymology
From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 英山 (Yīngshān).
Proper noun
Yingshan
- A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 1939 May 10, “Fighting Round Yingshan”, in North-China Herald, volume CCXI, number 3744, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 228:
- Extending their gains in a May offensive against Chinese troops. in the hilly “regions of north-eastern Hupeh, Japanese forces yesterday made a surprise attack on a Chinese base at the foot of a mountain north-west of Yingshan and captured it after a brief clash.
- 1940 January, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 1 (381), page 22:
- In the northern part of the province, Changshengkwan and Huayuan, north of Hankow, were recaptured by the Chinese, followed by the defeat of the Japanese near Yingshan and the Chinese attack on Macheng.
[...]The invaders' base at Sinyang received reinforcements from Yingshan, north Hupeh, but that failed to prevent the fall of Changtaikwan, and Sinyang itself from being twice raided by the Chinese.
- 2011, Frank Dikötter, “On the Sly”, in Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 214:
- In Yingshan county, Hubei, two poor men were hung from a tree after they were found stealing millet.
- 2020 March 25, Joe McDonald, Yu Bing, Mari Yamaguchi, “China lifting last controls in province at outbreak’s center”, in AP News, archived from the original on 27 November 2020:
- There is no word on when schools, which have been teaching online and through social media, might reopen in Hubei.
“We still feel it is not the right time to resume classes,” said Li Zhen, a teacher at the Yingshan County Experimental School in Huanggang.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yingshan.
Translations
county in central China
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingshan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, columns 2-3