Shangqiu
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 商丘/商邱 (Shāngqiū).
Proper noun
editShangqiu
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 2010 May 12, Edward Wong, “China: Confession Obtained by Torture”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-05-16, Asia Pacific[3]:
- Officials in the city of Shangqiu in Henan Province have admitted that police officers tortured a man to get him to falsely confess to a murder that he did not commit, official Chinese news organizations reported Wednesday.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 361:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Shangkiu (Shang-ch'iu, Shangqiu)
Further reading
edit- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shangkiu or Shang-chiu[sic – meaning Shang-ch'iu]”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1743, column 3
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