Xiayi
See also: xiáyì
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏邑.
Proper noun
[edit]Xiayi
- A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
- [1972 [1953 July 2], Henry R. Lieberman, “Peiping Bids Reds Curb Land Reform”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China (The Great Contemporary Issues)[1], New York: Arno Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:
- The editorial, which was published June 19, said the Yiwu farm had requisitioned about twenty acres of land and required 195 peasant families to exchange fifty-four more acres under such circumstances that a number of peasants later produced less on the poorer land they had received. Listing similar examples in Honan, the newspaper noted that the Hsiayi county farm had demanded land occupied by 2,000 families and that considerable opposition had been aroused when the Loyang district farm decided to take land scattered in fourteen villages.]
- [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945[2], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 128, 319:
- In Honan’s Hsia-i County, Nien chieftain Hou Huang-le led two hundred relatives with the same surname, and in neighboring Shang-ch’iu, chieftain Chang San’s Nien following consisted of three hundred who shared his surname. […]
Hsia-i County (Honan), 128]
- 2006, Caroline Cox, Catherine Butcher, quoting Liu Haitao's Pastor, “A new martyr for a new millennium”, in Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs[3], Continuum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
- By the roadside of a pitched country road in Jiyang Village, stretching to Xiayi County, in Henan Province, in central China, a coffin was placed for three days prior to burial. From 16 to 19 October 2000, cars, motor vehicles, and villagers on bikes and on foot passed by and saw the coffin.[...]The name of the dead young man was Liu Haitao. He was born in Liu Fang Lou Village, Ji Yang Town in Xiayi County on 24 June 1979. He was 21 years old when he became a martyr for the Lord.
- 2019 April 30, Stephen Roach, “Donald Trump’s case against China is deeply flawed and ignores weaknesses in the American economy”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 30, 2019, Opinion[5]:
- Employees work on the production line making clothes for export at a factory in Xiayi county, in Shangqiu in China’s central Henan province in August 2018. The Trump administration has focused on rectifying the US trade deficit with China.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiayi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 1
- Xiayi, Hsia-i, Hsiai, Hsiayi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.