Guangling
See also: Guǎnglíng
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 廣靈／广灵.
Proper noun
Guangling
- A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
- [1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, London: Thomas Murby & Co., OCLC 859839363, page 172:
- The coalfields of Mentoukou and Chaitang, in the Western Hills of Peking, of Yuhsien, Yangyuan, and Hsuanhua in south-western Chahar, and of Kuangling and Tatung in northern Shansi are among the best known for their valuable Jurassic coal.]
- 1989, Hartford, Kathleen, “Repression and Communist Success: The Case of Jin-Cha-Ji, 1938-1943”, in Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 87-4823, OCLC 489580894, page 106:
- A second incident concerned the activities of Shanxi Peace Preservation Corps forces (forces under Yan Xishan’s Second War Area and tenuously under Guomindang control) led by Bai Zhiyi.⁵⁰ These forces rampaged through Guangling county in Shanxi in mid-October 1939.
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Translations
county
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