Jingbian
See also: Jìngbiān
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊/靖边 (Jìngbiān).
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Jingbian
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- 2005 July 18, Howard W. French, “Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, World[2]:
- JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's. […]
The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert. […]
Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingbian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2