Xiping

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西平.

Proper noun

Xiping

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1968, “Ceramics: Han-Sung”, in Chinese Art from The Cloud Wampler and other Collections in the Everson Museum‎^[1], →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

     That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59).]

   • [1979, Evelyn Rawski, “Notes”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China‎^[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212‎^[3]:

     In "Shindai ni okeru gigaku," pp. 299-304, Ogawa Yoshiko presents detailed information on the backgrounds of forty-one school managers in Hsi-p’ing county, Honan; almost every one was an official, a chien-sheng, or a shengyüan.]

   • 1981 August, Shouyi Zhao, Zhang Kezong, “A Day with Squad Six”, in China Reconstructs‎^[4], volume XXX, number 8, →OCLC, page 58:

     Liu Ruyi, a new recruit, comes from Xiping county in Henan province.

   • 1994 September 4, Sheryl WuDunn, “China's Rush to Riches”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Section 6, page 38‎^[6]:

     While some local governments ignore the illiteracy problem, others are actively campaigning to teach people to read and write. In the villages of Xiping County in Henan Province in central China, students stop visitors and ask them to read a few characters on a blackboard. Any visitor who cannot read the characters is not allowed to enter the village. This means that illiterates are effectively grounded, and in frustration many have joined the special reading classes offered in each village. Now in Xiping County, according to local officials, only 1.7 percent of those between the ages of 20 and 40 are illiterate.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西平 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiping”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3504, column 3

Anagrams

• Pingxi, pixing