Sanmenxia
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) San-men-hsia
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 三門峽／三门峡 (Sānménxiá).
Proper noun
Sanmenxia
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- [1964 November, “New Look at Changing China”, in National Geographic Magazine, volume 126, number 5, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 643483454, page 641, column 2:
- The silt-laden, unnavigable Huang many times has broken through its dikes and changed its course, bringing famine with flood. In recent years the Chinese have tried to harness its power by building giant hydroelectric dams, notably at Sanmenhsia in Honan Province and at Liuchia Gorge near Lanchow. But work came to a standstill with the departure of Russian engineers in 1960.]
- [1975, Borisov, Oleg Borisovich; Boris Trofimovich Koloskov, Soviet-Chinese Relations, 1945-1970, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 74-31443, OCLC 463014085, page 216:
- Despite the tremendous need of many Chinese organizations for technical assistance, and despite repeated statements of Chinese representatives concerning “losses” supposedly suffered by China as a result of the recall of Soviet specialists, the government of the PRC forwarded only two such requests in all of 1961; one for four specialists to assist in the installation of the equipment in the Sanmenhsia hydroelectric plant, and one for seven specialists to instruct in the piloting of aircraft used in agriculture.]
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Translations
prefecture-level city
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References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 71-178868, OCLC 482667885, pages 345, 361:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Sanmensia (San-men-hsia, Sanmenxia)