Puyang

English

Alternative forms

• P'u-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 濮陽／濮阳 (Púyáng).

Proper noun

Puyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • 1932 June 25, “Concerted Drive on Communists Is Begun”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[1], volume 61, number 4, →OCLC, page 138, column 2:

     Shantung, Hopei and Honan troops are all converging on Puyang, in the extreme south of Hopei near the Hopei-Shantung border, for a joint attack on the Liu rebels.

   • 1976, “Celadons, Old and New”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

     A celadon jar with lotus pattern of the sixth century found at Puyang, Honan.

   • 2008 January 17, Liangi Chiang, “Corruption blurs China's goal of harmonious society”, in Alan Wheatley, Megan Goldin, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 09 January 2020, Business News:

     It’s in poor places like Puyang that the ruling Communist party’s battle to narrow China’s yawning wealth gap will be won or lost.
     Many residents of this county town about six hours’ drive south of Beijing say their lives have improved thanks to tax cuts and increased spending on education, medical insurance and welfare.
     But not everyone is content. Puyang, nestled in the northeastern corner of Henan province, is a study in contrasts.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Puyang.
2. A county of Puyang, Henan, China.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濮陽／濮阳 (zh) (Púyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Puyang, P'u-yang, Pu-yang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Puyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2539, column 2