Xuan'en

English

Alternative forms

• Suanen (Postal Romanization)
• Süanen
• Hsuan-en, Hsüan-en (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).

Proper noun

Xuan'en

1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
   • [1969 December 9 [1969 December 3], “Hupeh Agriculture”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 237, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 6:

     (Chunmuying) District of Hsuanen County has fulfilled this year's grain procurement quota.]

   • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine‎^[1], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:

     Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.

   • [2020 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Ex-prison inmate infected with coronavirus travels from Wuhan to Beijing”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-27, People & Culture‎^[3]:

     A source from Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said the patient was Huang Dengying, a 61-year-old former official in Xuanen county who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013 for taking bribes, but released early on February 17.]

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣恩 (zh) (Xuān'ēn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuan’en”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3