Tongxin
See also: tōngxìn, tóngxīn, and tòngxīn
English
Map including Tongxin (NIMA, 1998)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 同心 (Tóngxīn).
Proper noun
Tongxin
- A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia, China.
- [1972, MacInnis, Donald E., “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History, →ISBN, OCLC 898782164, page 170:
- On June 1 of the same year he again ordered his henchmen, Ma-tung and Chen Ju-chin, to lead a revolt in Chen-chia-fen, T’ung-hsin Hsien.]
- [1979 February, Ma, Yu-huai, “Twenty Years of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 2, Peking, OCLC 7513641, pages 34, column 2:
- In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.]
- 1991, Gladney, Dru C., Muslim Chinese, →ISBN, LCCN 90-26582, OCLC 470668752, page 87:
- The first Hui autonomous county was set up in the 1930s in Tongxin, southern Ningxia, as a demonstration of the early Communists' goodwill toward the Hui.
- 2019 September 26, Feng, Emily, “'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown”, in NPR, archived from the original on 26 September 2019:
- In August 2018, in Ningxia's Tongxin county, authorities attempted to demolish the Weizhou Grand Mosque, claiming it lacked the right building permits. […]
In Ningxia's Tongxin county, a rare female-only Islamic school once renowned across China's north-central and west is being readied for demolition after it was shut down last year to make way for residential development.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tongxin.
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Translations
county
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