Nanyang
See also: Nányáng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Nan-yang
Etymology 1
From Mandarin 南陽／南阳 (Nányáng).
Proper noun
Nanyang
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 1798, “HONAN”, in Dobson's Encyclopædia, volume VIII, Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, OCLC 1205531229, page 639:
- In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy.
- 2021, Ge, Jianxiong; Hu, Yunsheng, A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations, →ISBN, ISSN 2196-3134, OCLC 1201384776, page 184:
- Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.
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Descendants
- Translingual: Nanyangosaurus
Translations
prefecture-level city
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Etymology 2
From Mandarin 南洋 (Nányáng).
Alternative forms
- Nan Yang
Proper noun
Nanyang
- Synonym of Southeast Asia vis-à-vis Chinese and Peranakan culture: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 1972, Fitzgerald, C. P., The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, OCLC 695393553, OL 5335141M, page 189:
- In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
- 1985, Goldberg, Michael A., “The Backdrop: The Overseas Chinese and the Role of Land, Business, and Family in Chinese Society”, in The Chinese Connection: Getting Plugged in to Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets, Vancouver: University of British Columbia, →ISBN, OCLC 12485068, pages 14-15:
- Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed.
Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.
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Further reading
- “Nanyang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.