Xiangxiang

See also: xiāngxiàng, xiǎngxiǎng, xiǎngxiàng, and xiǎngxiang

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiang-hsiang (Wade–Giles)
• Siangsiang (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湘鄉／湘乡 (Xiāngxiāng).

Proper noun

Xiangxiang

1. A county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan, China, formerly a county.
   • [1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

     This rural character became the backbone of Tseng Kuo-fan’s Hunan Army, which was recruited mainly from the hilly farm areas. Tseng’s home district of Hsiang-hsiang west of the Hsiang River ultimately furnished 52 generals (41.9%) and many of the rank and file,29 while such districts as Pao-ch’ing in the upper Tzu Valley and Hsin-ning near the mountainous Kwangsi border in the south also contributed many officers and men.]

   • [1980, Dick Wilson, “1893-1910 Child of the Snake”, in The People's Emperor, Mao: A Biography of Mao Tse-tung‎^[2], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:

     Mao’s father decided to apprentice Mao to a rice shop in Hsiangtan with which he had some connection. Mao was not against the idea, but he had also heard from his cousin Wen about a new school in his mother’s county of Hsianghsiang which taught— and by radical methods—some of the “new knowledge” of the West, with less emphasis on the classics.]

   • 2009 December 8, Sharon LaFraniere, “China Stampede Kills 8 Students”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     The accident occurred as more than 400 students at Yucai Middle School in Hunan Province headed back to their dormitories after evening classes. […]
     The injured were taken to three hospitals in Xiangxiang, a city of about 900,000. “They are so young,” said an aide at Hospital No. 2. “They looked so pitiful.”

Translations

county-level city in Hunan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 湘鄉／湘乡 (zh) (Xiāngxiāng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
• Xiangxiang, Hsiang-hsiang, Hsianghsiang at Google Ngram Viewer