Yangxin

English

Alternative forms

• Yangsin (Postal Romanization)
• Yanghsin, Yang-hsin (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽新／阳新 (Yángxīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjɑnˈʃiːn/, enPR: yängʹshĭnʹ

Proper noun

Yangxin

1. A county of Huangshi, Hubei, China.
   • [1954, Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung‎^[2], volume 1, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 151:

     Elsewhere, too, the comrades have made progress in their work and deserve our praise — as in some parts of the counties of Shanghang, Changting and Yungting in Fukien Province; in Hsikiang and other places in southern Kiangsi Province; in some parts of the counties of Chaling, Yunghsin and Kian in the Hunan-Kiangsi border area; in some parts of Yanghsin County in the Hunan-Hupeh-Kiangsi border area; in districts and townships of many other counties in Kiangsi Province and in the county of Juichin which is directly under our central government.]

   • [1977, Roy, Jr. Hofheinz, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928‎^[3], Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318‎^[4]:

     Another report from Yanghsin county down the Yangtze mentioned ten gentry, leaders of dissatisfied old-style policemen, and secret societies angry at the desecration of “superstitious” temples.]

   • 1985 July 1, Hubei Curbs Unhealthy Tendencies‎^[5], United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 73‎^[6]:

     Examination of the condition of the reckless issuing of clothing throughout the county by the Yangxin County party committee and the county government to administrative and business units directly subordinate to the county was stressed, it was discovered that the cost of issuing clothing to 45 units had topped 300,000 yuan, and over 72,000 yuan has now been recovered.

   • 1998 November 22, John Pomfret, “Yangtze Flood Jolts China's Land Policies”, in The Washington Post‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2000-10-01, page A31‎^[8]:

     To understand the complex issues bedeviling China's government, journey to Yangxin, a river-crossed county on the southern banks of the Yangtze in Hubei province, 800 miles from Beijing.

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽新／阳新 (zh) (Yángxīn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangxin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 3

Anagrams

• Xinyang