Maoping

See also: Máopíng

English

Alternative forms

• Mao-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 茅坪 (Máopíng).

Proper noun

Maoping

1. A town in Zigui, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, “The Eve of the Flood”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎^[1], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     Zigui, home of the Qu Yuan temple, was the first town to be completely relocated when, in 1999, the residents moved downstream to Maoping, not far from the dam site.

   • 2007 May 8, “Shifting land leads to evacuation in Three Gorges”, in China Daily‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 May 2007‎^[3]:

     The relocation will affect all 99 residents of Miaohe, a village in the Maoping Township, in Zigui County, Central China's Hubei Province, which sits on the northern bank of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茅坪 (Máopíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can