Guancheng
See also: guānchéng
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 管城 (Guǎnchéng).
Proper noun
Guancheng
- A Hui district in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- 2001, Shui, Jingjun, “In Search of Sacred Women's Organizations”, in Ping-Chun Hsiung; Maria Jaschok; Cecilia Milwertz; Red Chan, editors, Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers, Berg, →ISBN, LCCN 2001005195, OCLC 1171258066, page 114:
- Dan Ye, who is a committee member of Beida Women's Mosque, is also a member of the Guancheng District Women's Federation in Zhengzhou City.⁶ She took the initiative to report to the Federation the work of the women's mosques, including mediation in neighbourhood and domestic disputes, family planning and legal rights education. Dan Ye appealed to the Guancheng District Women’s Federation to establish a working relationship with the women’s mosques. Despite the praise this report received, Beida Women’s Mosque is still waiting for the Federation to act on its assurances.
- 2013, Guo, Rongxing, “Henan”, in Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, OCLC 864656119, page 133:
- With a population of approximately 93.6 million, Henan is the second most populous Chinese province after Guangdong. Although the population is highly homogeneous with 98.8% being Han, Henan has the largest Muslim Hui population in eastern China, which constitute approximately 1% and lives mostly in Muslim enclaves in the Guancheng District (in Zhengzhou), the Chanhe District (in Luoyang) and the Shunhe District (in Kaifeng).
- 2021, Wei Ren; Yan He, “Mount Songshan: The Center of Heaven and Earth”, in Historic Monuments of Mount Songshan, DOI:, →ISBN, OCLC 1191713750, page 30:
- Located in Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou, the Shang City is the ruins of the early-day capital of the Shang Dynasty.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Guancheng.
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Translations
Hui district
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Anagrams
- chengguan