Jianli
See also: jiānlì, jiǎnlì, jiànlì, and Jiànlì
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Kienli
- (from Wade–Giles) Chien-li
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 監利／监利 (Jiànlì).
Proper noun
Jianli
- A county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- [1958, Wang, Chun-heng, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 185443676, page 116:
- Out of the gorges, the river meanders on flat lands in the Middle Yangtse Plain, forming many bow-shaped lakes, particularly near Chienli County, Hupeh.]
- [1968, Clubb, O. Edmund, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, LCCN 68-56634, OCLC 898891491, page 66:
- Reds control the area bounded by Tsaoshih, Chujushan, Pailochi, Kienli, and Tienmen, with the Soviet located somewhere in Kienli hsien (in the region of Choulaotsui, or Chuho?). The designation of this organization is: "Kienli Hsien Soviet Government (監利縣蘇維埃政府)", with control residing in a presidium.]
- [1973, Rozman, Gilbert, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 72-1986, OCLC 251969468, OL 5283502M, page 237:
- Chien-li hsien was also a fertile area for chen since it was located by the Yangtze river in an area crossed by numerous rivers and contained a population of 883,000.]
- 2001, Chang, Gordon G., “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 00-054782, OCLC 45636911, page 201:
- Beijing estimates that 9.7 million more farmers will be forced to leave the land after accession, but others think that the real number will be four times that. In Huangqiao, a town in Jianli County of central Hubei Province, about 90 percent of the peasants have abandoned their homes and fields. Some have even abandoned their lives; suicides are on the rise, and a whole family drowned themselves in despair.
“I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is failing because of the decline of agriculture.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jianli.
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Translations
county in central China
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Anagrams
- in jail