Dingxiang

See also: dīngxiāng and dìngxiàng

English

Alternative forms

• Ting-hsiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定襄 (Dìngxiāng).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdiŋʒeɪŋ/

Proper noun

Dingxiang

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • [1960, Suzanne Labin, “The Schoolmistress Shuen, the Midwife Yu, the Feminist Mee and a Group of Chinese Women”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China‎^[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 312:

     I knew a young woman of twenty who lived in the town of Tinghsiang in the province of Shansi. She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month.]

   • [1978 May 8 [1978 May 4], “Leaders Attend Memorial Service for Chang Lien-kuei”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], volume I, number 89, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page E 1:

     In the memorial speech Chang Chen said: Comrade Chang Lien-kuei was a native of Tinghsiang County, Shansi Province. As a youngster, he actively took part in revolutionary activities. He was admitted to the CCP in December 1935. He had served successively as secretary of the Tinghsiang County CCP Committee, […]]

   • 1982, Zhongshu Wang, translated by K. C. Chang et al., Han Civilization‎^[3], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

     The mural in the Holingor Han tomb shows that toward the end of the Eastern Han at the latest Dingxiang 定襄 Prefecture (in the north of modern Shanxi, transferred there from Inner Mongolia) also had mulberry cultivation.

   • 1992, Simon G. Powell, “Yanbei prefecture: specialised production”, in Agricultural Reform in China: From Communes to Commodity Economy, 1978-1990 (Studies on East Asia)‎^[4], Manchester University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:

     In neighbouring Xinxian prefecture, immediately to the south of Yanbei, is Hengshan brigade, Dingxiang county.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定襄 (zh) (Dìngxiāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 3