Dongsheng
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Etymology 1 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東勝/东胜 (Dōngshèng).
Proper noun edit
Dongsheng
- A district of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.
- 1999, Hong Jiang, “Human driving forces of environmental change”, in The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment[1], United Nations University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
- Most villages subscribe to local newspapers, but when they arrive their contents are no longer news; it takes seven days to deliver newspaper from the League centre, Dongsheng, and more than 20 days for newspapers to arrive from outside the area.
- 2015 March 6, Jody Rosen, “The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2015[3]:
- In 2006, the headquarters of the local government was moved to Kangbashi from the Dongsheng District, 20 miles north; bus service between Kangbashi and Dongsheng was allegedly cut off so that Ordos’s public officials would be forced to take up residence in the new town.
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongsheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1044, column 2
Etymology 2 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東升 (Dōngshēng).
Proper noun edit
Dongsheng
Translations edit
town and village in central China
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