Dancheng

See also: dānchéng

English

Alternative forms

• Tan-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄲城／郸城 (Dānchéng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)dɑnˈt͡ʃʌŋ/, /(ˈ)dænˈt͡ʃɛŋ/

Proper noun

Dancheng

1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • [1975 December 2 [1975 November 25], People's Daily, quotee, “Do a Good Job in Carrying Out Revolution in Education in Accordance with Chairman Mao's Instructions”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 232, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 1‎^[2]:

     According to Chairman Mao's instruction on having the poor and lower-middle peasants administer schools, the party branch of the (Choulou) production brigade of the (Wuchai) commune in Tancheng County, Honan Province, has grasped 10 things in carrying out revolution in education by relying on the poor and lower-middle peasants since the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.]

   • 1988, Justin Yifu Lin, “Rural Factor Markets in China After the Household Responsibility System Reform”, in Chinese Economic Policy: Economic Reform at Midstream‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190:

     The interest rates paid for private credit were extremely high in some areas. One such case was recorded in a study of Dancheng County, Henan Province. The study found that the combined revenues for production teams was 21.76 million yuan between January and September 1979, yet the expenditure was 36.33 million yuan.

   • 2022 January 23, Phoebe Zhang, “Covid-19: Chinese mayor derided after detention threat for Lunar New Year returnees”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 January 2022, Politics‎^[5]:

     Widely shared video footage of Dong Hong, mayor of Dancheng county in Henan province, showed him saying at a meeting that “anyone returning home from medium or high-risk areas will be quarantined and then detained”.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鄲城／郸城 (zh) (Dānchéng)

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