Shenqiu

See also: shēnqiū

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沈邱／沈丘.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃʌnˈt͡ʃjoʊ/

Proper noun

Shenqiu

1. A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • [1971, “China”, in Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1971‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 558:

     The proper relationship between the Revolutionary Committees and party committees was outlined by Honan radio on 13 January 1970 on the experience of the party branch committee of the Shen-ch’iu County post office. According to the report, several leaders had initially “failed to treat the relationship between the party branch and the Revolutionary Committee correctly, so that the party branch was unable to play its proper role as the core."]

   • [1986, Yu-ming Shaw, editor, Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489:

     In the Symposium on the Work of Social Relief in Nineteen Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions held in Shenchiu County, Honan Province, in November 1983, it was said that the work of supporting the poor had been developed by over 31,000 people's communes in 1,814 counties in mainland China.]

   • 1993 May 16, Sheryl WuDunn, “China Is Trying to Curb 'Warlord' Businessman”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, World‎^[4]:

     Mr. Wang, whose roost was a rural county called Shenqiu in Henan Province in central China, is now under arrest, but other local tycoons are thriving outside the law.
     Central Authorities Alarmed
     Shenqiu County is closed to foreigners, and the authorities rejected a reporter's request to visit there. But the central authorities are clearly alarmed that local officials repeatedly defied outside investigators, and some fear that the Shenqiu affair represents decentralization gone berserk.

   • 1994, “War and Rural Mobilization: The Rivereast Floodplain”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎^[5], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:

     In Shenqiu county, citizens fought the flood by building a dike. But the hastily constructed structure could not contain the floodwater, which overflowed the banks every year, forcing local residents to make annual repairs.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沈丘 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can