Zhongxiang
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See also: zhōngxiàng and Zhōngxiáng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥／钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zhongxiang
- A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.
- , volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:
- The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.]
- 2013 June 12, Amy Li, “China grapples with attacks on teachers after cheating halted on college exam”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 13, 2013, News China:
- Days after dozens of Hubei teachers were attacked by angry students whose attempts at cheating on China’s highly competitive national college entrance exam were foiled, the nation is struggling to understand what exactly went wrong. […]
The attack happened on Saturday afternoon outside a school in Hubei’s Zhongxiang city. After the exam, students besieged teachers who had reportedly imposed strict measures and stopped students from cheating.
- 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific:
- In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. […]
She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.
Translations
county-level city in central China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chungsiang or Chung-hsiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 2
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
- Zhongxiang, Chungsiang, Chunghsiang, Chung-hsiang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.