Zhongyang

See also: zhōngyāng, zhòngyáng, and Zhōngyáng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中陽／中阳 (Zhōngyáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋˈjæŋ/, enPR: jo͝ongʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Zhongyang

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • 2009, Yulin Zhang, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives‎^[2], University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:

     An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.

   • 2009, Wang Jinming, Li Guangjie, editors, Zhongyang Paper-cutting‎^[3], Shanxi People's Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 002:

     Zhongyang County, affiliated to Lvliang City of Shanxi Province administratively, is located at the western side of the middle range of Lvliang Mountain in the west of Shanxi Province.

   • 2015 August 10, Vanessa Piao, Austin Ramzy, “Drawings of Police Torture Seize China’s Attention”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-11, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     The man, Liu Renwang, was accused of shooting to death a village official in Shanxi Province in 2008. He says the drawings show how the local police went about extracting a confession from him for a crime he did not commit. […]
     He said the officers who tortured him were from the Zhongyang County Public Security Bureau. A woman who answered the phone at the bureau on Monday afternoon said she did not know about the case and declined to comment.
     Mr. Liu said that he had asked several painters in Zhongyang to illustrate his experiences but that they all turned him down for fear of retaliation by the police.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中陽／中阳 (zh) (Zhōngyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2