Xixiang
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hsi-hsiang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 西鄉／西乡.
Proper noun
Xixiang
- A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
- [1975, Ho, Ping-ti, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C., →ISBN, LCCN 73-92407, OCLC 311751115, page 39:
- By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site in Hsi-hsiang county, Shensi, on the southern side of the Ch’in-ling Mountain.]
- 2015 February 13, Yang Xin, “Students Left to Suffer Even as School Mergings End”, in Beijing Today, OCLC 958634538, page 6:
- Huashang Daily investigated the local budget of Xixiang County in Hanzhong, Shanxi province in 2009 to learn about the effects of school merging. “The mergers saved the county almost 500 million yuan over the next 30 years,” it wrote.
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Translations
county
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