Lianhu
See also: Liánhú
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 蓮湖／莲湖 (Liánhú).
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Lianhu
- A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- [1973, Survey of China Mainland Press[1], numbers 5308-5345, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
- […] the Party committee of Peiyuanmen commune of Lienhu ch'u in Sian municipality has since the year before last set up outside-school cultural activity centers in the commune headquarters and in various neighborhood committees.]
- 1986, Binyan Liu, “The Rights and Wrongs over the Past Thirty-Eight Years”, in Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey, with Analysis[3], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:
- On December 7, 1983, the branch bureau dragged in many people and sent dozens of armed men with a prison van to pull down a 12-square-meter asphalt felt shed in the backyard of Guo’s house (142, Qingnian Street, Xian City). By order of Liang Ping, vice president of the Lianhu District Court, they brutally raided Guo’s family!
- 2006, Stuart Strother, Barbara Strother, “Xi'an 西安”, in Living Abroad in China[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:
- Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu. […]
Lianhu District's apartments typically rent for $150-250 a month, though it is possible to find very modest places for less than $100 or large four-bedroom flats renting as high as a whopping $400.
- 2015 September 9, “Chinese farmer pretended to be princess to commit fraud”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 13 October 2022:
- Wang Fengying and her co-accused Yang Janglin[sic – meaning Jianglin] said she was called Princess Changping and persuaded people to lend them money to help them get back assets worth billions of dollars held by authorities, the Lianhu District Court in Shaanxi province said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lianhu.