Xixiang

English

Alternative forms

• Hsi-hsiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西鄉／西乡.

Proper noun

Xixiang

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C.‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site in Hsi-hsiang county, Shensi, on the southern side of the Ch’in-ling Mountain.]

   • [1978 [1955 July 6], “The Party Branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Gives Correct Leadership to Mutual Aid and Co-operation”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）]‎^[2], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 214:

     Established in 1952, the Communist Party branch of Yanghopa Township, Hsihsiang County, Shensi Province, now has 22 members. All of them have joined local mutual-aid and co-operative organizations in which they play the role of backbone and pace-setters.]

   • 2015 February 13, Yang Xin, “Students Left to Suffer Even as School Mergings End”, in Beijing Today‎^[3], →OCLC, page 6:

     Huashang Daily investigated the local budget of Xixiang County in Hanzhong, Shanxi province in 2009 to learn about the effects of school merging. “The mergers saved the county almost 500 million yuan over the next 30 years,” it wrote.

   • 2016 August 9, “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group signs agreement”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-06-07, TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS‎^[5]:

     Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network Intermediary Group Co.,Ltd.:
     * Says it signs cooperation agreement with Xixiang County People’s Government, to undertake digital cable television, radio and television broadband construction project

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西鄉／西乡 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xixiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1