Yangpu
English
Yangpu District in Shanghai
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) Yang-p'u, Yangpoo
Etymology
From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 楊浦 (Yángpǔ, literally “Poplar Bank”), a 1950 clipping of earlier 楊樹浦 (Yángshùpǔ, literally “Poplar Tree Bank”), after the name of a creek that formerly ran through the area beside present-day Lanzhou Rd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɑŋpu/, /jæŋpu/
Proper noun
Yangpu
- A district of Shanghai, China.
- 1966 April 7, Guillain, Robert, “Shanghai's Repentant Capitalists”, in The Reporter, volume 34, number 7, ISSN 1049-1600, OCLC 1033033652, page 38, column 3:
- Shanghai has built steelworks, chemical plants, and factories for machine tools. The one I visited in Yangpu, with 5,200 workers, manufactures about forty different types of machines; the factory is proudest of its grinding machines, some of which attain very great precision.
- 1973, Nee, Victor, “Revolution and Bureaucracy: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution”, in China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present, First edition, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, LCCN 74-4770, OCLC 964880707, page 365:
- The actual turnover of leading cadres in district committees was not as sweeping as it was at the highest level of municipal government. For example, Chang Ching-piao, the First Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, after undergoing mass criticism and reform became the chairman of the Yangpu District Revolutionary Committee.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangpu.
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Synonyms
- (obsolete) Yangshupu, Yangtzepoo, Yangtszepoo
Translations
District of Shanghai, China
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