Nujiang
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Nu-chiang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 怒江 (Nùjiāng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnuːˈd͡ʒiæŋ/
Proper noun
Nujiang
- A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
- [1976, Dreyer, June Teufel, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 76-19032, OCLC 185401226, OL 4888121M, page 242:
- In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.]
- 2003, Grove, Noel, Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide, →ISBN, LCCN 2002045173, OCLC 51266273, page 173:
- On the side of a commercial van in the city, I saw the logo “Shangri-la Tours” written in English. Miffed by Lijiang's presumption, the Nujiang prefecture along the Salween River appointed a committee of academicians to study the origins of the Shangri-la myth, to see if they might claim it instead.
- 2022 July 27, “Global Times: Dulong people achieve miracle of eradicating poverty, embracing better life under firm leadership of CPC”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 September 2022:
- “People here have benefited from improved infrastructure and connectivity to eliminate poverty,” Kong, now head of Dulongjiang township of Gongshan county in Yunnan’s Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, told the Global Times.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nujiang.
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- Nu River (the upper reaches of the Salween River in China).
Translations
Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan
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the upper reaches of the Salween River in China
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Anagrams
- Jungian