cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mismaneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismaneuvers
form: mismaneuvre
form: mismanoeuver
form: mismanoeuvre
Etymology: From mis- + maneuver.
Senses: examples: text: The second is the probability of a mismaneuver in the face of an impending accident.
ref: 1989, Per Bruun, Port Engineering, page 186:
text: Or the so-called foolproof airplane that is so control-limited and inherently stable that it obviously "wants" to fly and will work itself out of any stall, mismaneuver or spin anyone puts it into — in the process settling itself back on a comfortable and even keel?
ref: 1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life, page 442:
text: After two and a half years of political mismaneuvers, military bungling, expenditures estimated at 158 million dollars, and the death of twenty thousand men, Sheffey's prognosis was beginning to sound prophetic.
ref: 2003, Milton Gaither, American Educational History Revisited: A Critique of Progress, page 37:
text: During those three hellish days at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee was badly suffering from a severe case of diarrhea after having eaten too many cherries, an indisposition—given his ill-considered and ultimately amateurishly fatal decision for the Confederacy to attack from the front (and relatively below) on July 3, 1863—that cost his army a victory that day, an incredible mismaneuver and unstrategic folly that became, as it turned out, the turning-point of the entire war that led to the full and final defeat of the South.
ref: 2017, Alexander Theroux, Einstein's Beets, page 514:
glosses: A maneuver that does not go as intended.
examples: text: Through political maneuver (or mismaneuver) the act, in its full civil rights thrust, was joined to outlaw both race and sex discrimination in its coverage, but only in its title in regards to employment.
ref: 1977, Ohio State University. Commission on Women and Minorities, Report, page 16:
text: The frequency of a ship collision with a fixed object or a ship depends on the hypothetical frequency of ship collision with fixed autopilots and the probability of mismaneuver.
ref: 1982 ·, IABSE Reports - Volume 42, page 91:
text: The Fifth Queen is like Verdi's Otello: made of miscalculation, mismaneuver, and mistake. Motive is a metaphor with its meaning sheathed like a dagger. It is one of Shakespeare's doubtful mystery plays. . . . For prose, it is the recovery of poetry itself.
ref: 2003, Martha Tuck Rozett, Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction, page 9:
glosses: The act of mismaneuvering.
mismaneuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mismaneuver
mismaneuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismaneuver
mismaneuvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismaneuver
mismaneuvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismaneuver
mismaneuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismaneuvres
form: mismaneuvring
form: mismaneuvred
form: mismaneuvred
Senses: examples: text: He thought, moreover, that it was just within the calculation of chances that Antonius might either purposely mismaneuvre, so as to allow himn to descend upon Rome without a battle, or adopt such tactics as should give him a victory.
ref: 1880, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, page 207:
glosses: Alternative form of mismaneuver.
mismaneuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismaneuvres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mismaneuver.
mismaneuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mismaneuvre
mismaneuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismaneuvre
mismaneuvring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismaneuvre
mismaneuvred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismaneuvre
remaneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remaneuvers
form: remaneuvering
form: remaneuvered
form: remaneuvered
Etymology: From re- + maneuver.
Senses: examples: text: Maude Purvis was the granddaughter of an American Southern gentleman, Robert Louis Earle Purvis, who somehow mismaneuvered himself into association with the Yankees during the Civil War and quickly thereafter remaneuvered himself to distant Batavia where he found a happy and prosperous haven .
ref: 1956, American Universities Field Staff, Fieldstaff Reports: Southeast Asia series - Volumes 4-6, page 6:
text: He ground his tractor into reverse and backed away from the blower faster than he usually did, backing the eighteen-foot-long , ten-ton load to a point where he could remaneuver and come in correctly.
ref: 1992, Karen Kringle, Vital Ties: A Novel, page 246:
text: Like all the push plates in the building (e.g., at the bathrooms and at the guard desk) , this plate is along the accessible path so the person using it does not have to detour to reach it or remaneuver his or her wheelchair after using it to get to the door.
ref: 1993, William L. Lebovich, Design for Dignity: Studies in Accessibility, page 187:
text: At one particularly bad moment, I was clinging with two fingers and a toe to a wall with no other visible holds, and Ross was so far above me, and the wind was so strong, that he never heard me shouting, and then all-out screaming, for him to let some slack into the rope so I could remaneuver.
ref: 2016, Rachel Starnes, The War at Home, page 126:
glosses: To maneuver again, especially when the maneuver is to change or correct the result of the previous maneuver.
remaneuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remaneuvers
Etymology: From re- + maneuver.
Senses: examples: text: Timothy belatedly thought to ask, for no reason at all that he could think of, asked of no one in particular, as if he had been delayed, his life delayed by multiplying introductions to life, but Philly Morris and Gloria Dehaven had abruptly turned their considerable backs, pretending, as a sudden, surprising remaneuver, perhaps, to ignore Timothy, to leave him awash in introductions, thereby foreclosing any introduction at all to the people of Anybodys.
ref: 1996, Robert Eaton Kelley, The First Book of Timothy, page 236:
text: The whole idea behind these Saturday maneuvers and remaneuvers is to build strength and endurance.
ref: 2010, Shane Borrowman, Stuart Brown, Thomas Miller, Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition:
glosses: An instance of remaneuvering.
remaneuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remaneuver
remaneuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remaneuver
remaneuvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remaneuver
remaneuvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remaneuver
Fengqiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌŋˈt͡ʃjoʊ/
enpr: fǔngʹchyōʹ
Forms: form: Feng-ch'iu
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 封邱 /封丘 (Fēngqiū).
Senses: examples: text: "A New Era of Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants Taking the Rostrum Has Begun." (January 11, 1969).[…]
[The article] Reports the formation of lecture groups of poor and lower-middle peasants and their teaching in rural schools in Feng-ch'iu County, Honan Province.
ref: [1972, Stewart E. Fraser, Hsu Kuang-liang, “Periodical Articles”, in China: The Cultural Revolution: Its Aftermath and Effects on Education and Society: A Select and Partially Annotated Bibliography, University of London Institute of Education Library, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Back at Sinhsiang, we spent an evening watching the acrobats of Fengchiu. Fengchiu in north-eastern Honan has a reputation for producing the best acrobats, and they certainly put on an original show.
ref: [1974, Rewi Alley, “In an Ancient Kingdom the First People's Commune”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XIII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1:
text: "This village is just old people and children," said Du Shicheng, 51, a farmer in Fengqiu County whose two adult children work at a cellphone factory in the east. "Everyone else has already left."
ref: 2008 March 10, “Shrinking Chinese work force pushes wages up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023, International Business:
glosses: A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Changyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwɑn/
ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋ-/
enpr: chängʹyüǎnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 長垣 /长垣 (Chángyuán).
Senses: examples: text: Happily, Tung Ming Hsien is south of the Yellow River. Here the work of the church and school proceeds normally. The General Committee also has a group of eight preachers out in the remote country places of the Tung Ming counties and the southern end of the Ch’ang Yuan county, which lies south of the Yellow River.
ref: [1947 December 16, “Christmas Greeting to Friends”, in The Mennonite, volume 62, number 49, page 27, column 1:
text: Comrade Chiao Chun-liang was an operator in Chengchow Municipal Telecommunications Bureau. He was a native of Changyuan County, Honan, and was born in the family of a lower-middle peasant in the spring of 1936.
ref: 1976 May 5 [1976 May 4], “Chengchow, Honan Honors Man Slain in Riot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 88, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1; republished as Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, 1976, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
text: A county in central China plans in-depth checks on how its officials’ treat their parents, with those who are nice to their mum and dad first in line for promotion, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
Up to 500 family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be grilled by special investigators about the behaviour of each official from Changyuan county, including their family values and any drinking or gambling habits, the report said.
ref: 2007 April 7, “Want a promotion? Treat mum well says China county”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023, Oddly Enough:
glosses: A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
Lankao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: länʹkouʹ
Forms: form: Lan-k'ao
Etymology: From Mandarin 蘭考 /兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Senses: examples: text: IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.
ref: 1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:
text: He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.
ref: 1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:
text: Lankao County in Honan
In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.
ref: 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:
english: Travels in China, 1966-71
translation: Travels in China, 1966-71
text: “The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.
ref: 2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Emerging Markets:
glosses: A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Xiangfu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyängʹfo͞oʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祥符.
Senses: examples: text: The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates.
ref: 1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, “Chinese Native Sources”, in Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series), volume XLIV, Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd :
* Says it signs MoU with government of Xiangfu District, Kaifeng City to provide development, construction and operation service within the fields authorized by the government
ref: 2017 March 30, “BRIEF-China Fortune Land Development signs MoU with local government”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2022, Financials:
text: In January 2013, as part of the project to develop Henan section of the passenger-dedicated railway between the cities of Zhengzhou and Xuzhou, which was jointly invested by the People's Government of Henan Province and the Ministry of Railways under the central government, more than 120 mu of land of Yanlingfu Village, Duliang Township, Xiangfu District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, was occupied, and as compensation for the land, a total of RMB6,429,540 yuan was paid to the Yanlingfu Village, at the rate of RBM^([sic – meaning RMB]) 52,000 yuan per mu of land.
ref: 2021, Xiaoyang Shang, “The People v. Yang X and Shi X (Misappropriation of Public Funds): Assessment and Application of the "Special Circumstances" Warranting a Sentence Lesser than the Statutory Penalties”, in Selected Cases from the Supreme People’s Court of the People's Republic of China, volume 2, Law Press China, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: A district of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Shunhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 順河 /顺河.
Senses: examples: text: Shi Zhongyu, who works in the Bureau of Industry and Commerce in the Shunhe district, and factory workers Zhao Pingyu and Li Shichang, tell me that people of their great-grandparents’ generation married pretty much within the seven Surnames.
ref: 2003, Xin Xu, “The Inner Life of Kaifeng Jewry”, in The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion, Ktav Publishing House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:
text: The Lishiting Catholic Church in the Shunhe district of Kaifeng reopened on June 14 with around 20 people as a priest led the required ceremony supervised by government officials, according to Bitter Winter.
ref: 2020 July 8, Caleb Parke, “China churches ordered to praise Xi Jinping's handling of coronavirus before reopening, watchdog says”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2020:
glosses: A Hui district in Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Yuwangtai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹwängʹtīʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 禹王台.
Senses: examples: text: It can be concluded that the coupling degree of Yuwangtai District is the lowest; the coupling degree of the Shunhe Huizu area is higher, the coupling degree of Longting District is higher, and the coupling degree of Gulou District is the highest.
ref: 2020, Yang Xiqing et al., “Spatial Distribution Analysis of Convenience Stores in Kaifeng City Based on POI Data”, in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022, page 4:
text: On January 5th, 2021, the Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation and Exchange Meeting between Yuwangtai District and CCCE was held in the conference room of Yuwangtai District Government. Under the leadership of the vice dean Xu Yuanqing, ten teachers of CCCE had face-to-face communication with Wang Xuhe, deputy head of Yuwangtai District, and other government leaders, as well as the heads of 12 key enterprises in the district. On the cooperation between the district and the school and the enterprise, three parties reached a broad consensus, and determined the specific plan of cooperation.
ref: 2021 January 6, “CCCE Participated in District-College Cooperation Exchange Meeting for Science and Technology Innovation”, in College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences Henan University [河南大学化学与分子科学学院], archived from the original on 16 Aug 2024:
english: 河南大学化学与分子科学学院
translation: 河南大学化学与分子科学学院
text: In order to let children understand the traditional customs of the Chinese nation, cultivate their hands-on skills, and let them feel the unique happiness and happiness in winter, at the approaching of the winter solstice, Minxiang Street Kindergarten in Yuwangtai District launched the "Warm and Happy Winter" "Winter Solstice" theme activity.
ref: 2021 December 21, “Minxiang Street Kindergarten in Yuwangtai District launched the theme activity of “Warm Winter and Happy Winter Solstice“”, in DayDayNews, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
text: The “High-Low” cluster area is mainly distributed in Yuwangtai District, Kaifeng City. The “Low-High”cluster areas are mainly distributed in Huiji District and Shangjie District, and then gradually disappear.
ref: 2023, Li Jin-Feng et al., “Research on the Spatial-time Evolution and Influence Mechanism of Logistics Network Structure in Zhengzhou Metropolitan Area”, in IEEE Access, volume XX, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023, page 9, column 2:
glosses: A district of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Gulou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹlōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鼓樓 /鼓楼 (Gǔlóu).
Senses: examples: text: The Christian hospital, University Hospital at Kulou, Nanking, was described as going on with its medical and evangelistic work, a most interesting feature of which was the work for the reclamation through faith and prayer of narcotic addicts, conducted by Mr. Glazier of the China Inland Mission.
ref: [1942 August, P. Frank Price, “A Notable Issue of The Chinese Christian Intelligencer”, in The Presbyterian Survey, volume 32, number 8, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 368, column 2:
text: The city’s main thoroughfare, Chungshanlu, traverses the walled area from Siakwan to the Chungshan hills, east of Nanking. It passes the Kulou district, an area of parks and residences, and Hsinchiehkow, the central business district.
ref: [1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Lower Yangtze Plain”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 140:
text: At the time of the elections (1980) Nanjing was subdivided into three suburban counties (xian) and nine urban districts (qu). This portion of this chapter will focus on election work in two of those districts, Baixia and Gulou. Gulou district, with a population of about 300,000, is Nanjing’s largest district and is located in the center of the city.
ref: 1990, Barrett L. McCormick, “Elections to Local People's Congresses”, in Political Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leninist State, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138:
text: Nanjing Gulou University Science Park (NGUSP) is jointly initiated by Nanjing University (NJU) and the government of Gulou District of Nanjing.
ref: 2004, “Nanjing Gulou University Science Park”, in Building a Successful Plant in China, Singapore: China Knowledge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 273:
text: As of Thursday, the Nanjing center said that about 30 chengguan had visited or telephoned requesting assistance. In interviews, other chengguan talked about the difficulties they face and where they need help.
Yu Gaozhong, 34, a chengguan who works in the city’s Gulou district, said he once tried discussing occupational pressures with a friend, who laughed and asked, “Isn’t it the street vendors who should be asking for sympathy?”
ref: 2016 September 29, Karoline Kan, “Chengguan, Widely Despised Officers in China, Find Refuge and a Kind Ear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2016, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
glosses: A district of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Longting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lung-t'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 龍亭／龙亭.
Senses: examples: text: On 6 November 2002, a Certificate of Registration issued by the Longting District government arrived; finally, the Jiuku miao again became a legitimate place of worship of the Female Way.
ref: 2011, Maria Jaschok, Shui Jingjun, Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
text: Longting District People's Court in Kaifeng City sentenced Wang Songlin and Guo Shouhai to two years in prison and imposed jail terms of 12 to 18 months on Ding Zhongqiu, Luo Mingzhu, and Zhou Minghan.
ref: 2012 August 25, “5 cops jailed for torturing farmer to admit murder”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2012:
glosses: A district of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Weishi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹshûʹ
Forms: form: Weishih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尉氏.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, Weishi county, also in eastern Henan, has 90,000 mou of such plantations, all sources of useful income in the several communes where they are located.
ref: 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
text: The crash occurred in Weishi county, Henan province, on a newly upgraded road that had not been opened, witnesses were quoted as saying.
ref: 2018 June 21, Jiaquan Zhou, “‘Drunk driver’ arrested after four children killed in car crash in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2018, Society:
glosses: A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Tongxu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹshüʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 通許 /通许.
Senses: examples: text: To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.
ref: [1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:
text: Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.
ref: [1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), →OCLC, page 211:
text: Zhang Jiannong has been working the same cotton field in Tongxu County, Henan Province, for the last twenty-two years — a half-acre plot leased to him after the break-up of the People’s Agricultural Collective in 1982. He pays $27 a year as an "agricultural tax" on his plot, and no property tax for his house. All of the 400 farmers in his village in the Yellow River floodplain grow cotton on plots of roughly the same size in rich alluvial soil. Ancient irrigation canals still water the area. Heavy rains come in the summer.
ref: 2005, Stephen Yafa, “Fields of Conflict”, in Big Cotton, Viking Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 328:
text: Villagers said the guards had been sent by officials of Tongxu County, which includes Zhushigang.[…]
A person answering the telephone at the Tongxu County government offices said he did not know anything about the demolition.
ref: 2016 January 8, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Golden Mao Statue in China, Nearly Finished, Is Brought Down by Criticism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2016, ASIA PACIFIC:
glosses: A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Minquan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mǐnʹchüǎnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權 /民权 (Mínquán).
Senses: examples: text: Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^([sic – meaning Huangchuang]) brigade of Lungtang commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.
ref: [1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “A Despicable Act--Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four's' Exploitation of the Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 5:
text: In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.
ref: 1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:
text: Raised in a Christian home in Henan Province, Mr. Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”
ref: 2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2012, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Ningling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nǐngʹlǐngʹ
Forms: form: Ning-ling
Etymology: From Mandarin 寧陵 /宁陵.
Senses: examples: text: Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished. The administrative area of[...] the former Ningling county is transferred to Chu (7168) County.
ref: 1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9:
text: In 2006, after his son died, Mr Zhou attempted to sue the hospital, but the court wouldn’t take up his case. In Ningling county, in Henan, over 100 people were recently found to have been infected via blood transfusion.
ref: 2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, “Dust and Heat: Black Mines in the Yellow River Region”, in Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: For example, a court in Ningling county, Henan province, ruled in September that a man surnamed Song, who worked for a disease prevention and control centre in Suixian county, had accepted bribes of more than 1 million yuan (S$200,000) from several vaccine makers or agencies since July 2011, including 124,680 yuan from Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology.
ref: 2018 July 24, “Chinese pharmaceutical firm embroiled in vaccine scandal involved in several bribery cases, records show”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2018:
glosses: A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Liangyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 梁園.
Senses: examples: text: Rough statistics reveal that there were more than 14,000 laid-off workers in Liangyuan District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province last year, among whom women accounted for between 60 and 70 percent.
ref: 1999, Women of China, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: A non-government school in Liangyuan District of Shangqiu, Dongzhen Primary School was set up to accept children from local AIDS families by Li Dan, a graduate student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
ref: 2004 March 26, Chen Ying, “Just a Misunderstanding?”, in Beijing Today, number 147, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
text: As we have seen, the people of Guide/Shangqiu have traced the history of their city back well before the Ming and especially to the Han period. The People's Republic has recognized that heritage by naming the district subordinate to Shangqiu city the Liangyuan qu (Liang Garden District) and the district subordinate to Guide the Suiyang qu (Suiyang District) (see Map 3).
ref: 2009, Roger Des Forges, “Tales of Three City Walls in China's Central Plain”, in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 60–61:
text: There are more than 6,500 government employees in the transportation bureau of Liangyuan district in Shangqiu, Henan province alone.
ref: 2014 December 19, Yang Xin, “Truckers Forced to Pick Between Profits and Law”, in Beijing Today, number 705, →OCLC, page 2, columns 3, 4:
glosses: A district of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Yucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 虞城 (Yúchéng).
Senses: examples: text: In only eight months, a 143 m dam was built on the Tuhai River in Yucheng county to impound 50 million m3 of water and irrigate 500 000 mow.
ref: 1972, Geography, Geographical Association, →OCLC, page 224:
text: The provincial government has designated thirty-four counties in Henan as officially impoverished (pinkun xian) according to the provincial criterion: an average annual per capita income below 500 yuan and total household assets valued at less than 8,000 yuan, based on 1990 prices. Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province.
ref: 2002, Kellee S. Tsai, “Creative Capitalists in Henan”, in Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 185:
text: State-run media outlet CGTN reports the dust storm arrived in central Henan’s Yucheng County at around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday (March 31). Winds whipped a large bouncy castle and other inflatable paraphernalia into the air, leaving a trail of destruction at the scenic spot.
ref: 2019 April 1, Ryan Drillsma, “Dust devil kills two, injures 20 in China's Henan Province”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2019, World:
glosses: A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Sanjaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanjayas
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Sanjay
Xiayi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyäʹyēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 夏邑.
Senses: examples: text: The editorial, which was published June 19, said the Yiwu farm had requisitioned about twenty acres of land and required 195 peasant families to exchange fifty-four more acres under such circumstances that a number of peasants later produced less on the poorer land they had received. Listing similar examples in Honan, the newspaper noted that the Hsiayi county farm had demanded land occupied by 2,000 families and that considerable opposition had been aroused when the Loyang district farm decided to take land scattered in fourteen villages.
ref: [1972 [1953 July 2], Henry R. Lieberman, “Peiping Bids Reds Curb Land Reform”, in O. Edmund Clubb, editor, China (The Great Contemporary Issues), New York: Arno Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:
text: In Honan’s Hsia-i County, Nien chieftain Hou Huang-le led two hundred relatives with the same surname, and in neighboring Shang-ch’iu, chieftain Chang San’s Nien following consisted of three hundred who shared his surname.[…]
Hsia-i County (Honan), 128
ref: [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 128, 319:
text: By the roadside of a pitched country road in Jiyang Village, stretching to Xiayi County, in Henan Province, in central China, a coffin was placed for three days prior to burial. From 16 to 19 October 2000, cars, motor vehicles, and villagers on bikes and on foot passed by and saw the coffin.[...]The name of the dead young man was Liu Haitao. He was born in Liu Fang Lou Village, Ji Yang Town in Xiayi County on 24 June 1979. He was 21 years old when he became a martyr for the Lord.
ref: 2006, Caroline Cox, Catherine Butcher, quoting Liu Haitao's Pastor, “A new martyr for a new millennium”, in Cox's Book of Modern Saints and Martyrs, Continuum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: Employees work on the production line making clothes for export at a factory in Xiayi county, in Shangqiu in China’s central Henan province in August 2018. The Trump administration has focused on rectifying the US trade deficit with China.
ref: 2019 April 30, Stephen Roach, “Donald Trump’s case against China is deeply flawed and ignores weaknesses in the American economy”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2019, Opinion:
glosses: A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Yongcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔŋ.tʃɛŋ/
enpr: yo͝ongʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永城 (Yǒngchéng).
Senses: examples: text: May 13.—Serious threat to Chinese position in Hsuchow area eaused by Japanese advance towards Lunghai Railway from south. Japanese column which captured (May 11) Yungcheng, in southeast Honan, near Anhwei-Shantung border, is only 60 kilometers from Lunghai Railway, west of Hsuchow. Situation at Yungcheng and Mengcheng (45 miles northwest of Pengpu) obscure; considerable fighting raging in vicinity of both cities, but report of their recapture by Chinese lacking confirmation.
ref: [1938 June 11, “Outstanding Events in the Sino-Japanese War”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 85, number 2, →OCLC, page 59, column 2:
text: Communist Sun Chen-ching of the Chanyang commune at Yungcheng County in the central China province of Honan is an expert cotton grower who makes scientific experiments and is guided by the aim of growing cotton for the revolution.
ref: [1971 April 27 [1971 April 26], “Honan Presant Report Improves Cotton Growing in County”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 81, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 1:
text: Wu Xinrong, also a Xiao county native, was a landlord who controlled a local armed force. He was also a mayor and had jurisdiction over the counties of Xiayi, Yongcheng (both in Henan), and Dangshan (Anhui). Liu Ziren, a native of Yongcheng county (Henan), was an old-style army commander. These three local power holders were recruited into the Communist camp at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War through coalition politics.
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 205:
text: Li Xingong, who was the party’s deputy head in Yongcheng city in Henan province, was found guilty of assaulting the girls during police interrogations starting from the second half of 2011, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
ref: 2013 June 19, Ben Blanchard, “China executes official for child rapes after online uproar”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2023, WORLD NEWS:
glosses: A county-level city of Shangqiu, Henan, China, formerly a county.
Suiyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 睢陽 /睢阳.
Senses: examples: text: The experimental site, situated in Wuqiying village (34°17′46″N, 115°22′57″E), Lema Township, Suiyang District, Shangqiu Municipality, Henan Province, China (Fig. 1), experienced a semi-humid temperate monsoon climate.
ref: 2024 July 1, Cheng Liu, Jing Tian, Lei Chen, Qunling He, Xiaoyu Liu, Rongjun Bian, Jufeng Zheng, Kun Cheng, Shaopan Xia, Xuhui Zhang, Jihua Wu, Lianqing Li, Stephen Joseph, Genxing Pan, “Biochar boosted high oleic peanut production with enhanced root development and biological N fixation by diazotrophs in a sand-loamy Primisol”, in Science of The Total Environment, volume 932, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2024:
glosses: A district of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Suiyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 綏陽 /绥阳.
Senses: examples: text: The return journey was commenced in February by way of the Min river and Yangtse to Chungking. Thence a short trip was taken into Kweichow province, where Suiyang, about 50 miles from the northern border, was selected as a collecting-centre.
ref: 1899, F. W. Styan, “On Birds from West China”, in The Ibis, volume V, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 299:
text: In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province.
ref: 1978 [1954 November 10], Propaganda Department of the Suiyang County Party Committee, “Political Work in the Co-operatives”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 360:
english: 中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）
translation: 中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）
text: China’s air force said a military plane crashed Monday during training in the southwestern province of Guizhou.[…]
The Beijing News said the plane went down in the county of Suiyang.
ref: 2018 January 29, “Chinese military plane crashes during training exercise”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2023:
text: Already a popular tourist destination, Shuanghe Cave in Guizhou's Suiyang County is set to welcome a new wave of visitors.
ref: 2018 May 7, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “9 reasons to visit Guizhou, China's next big travel destination”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 May 2018:
glosses: A county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
Zhecheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柘城 (Zhèchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Zhang Lanfeng was a native of Zhecheng county in eastern Henan.[...]Zhang's political background clearly revealed that he had four basic social ties: his local ties in Zhecheng county, his military ties with Feng's Guominjun and later with the Northwest Army (xibei jun), his teacher-student ties at the Northwest Military Academy, and his tie to Chiang Kaishek.
ref: 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 333:
text: Zhecheng county where Shuangmiao village is located is one of the worst hit areas in Henan Province. No one comes into the county from outside now, so investment has dried up. The farming industry has also been ruined.
ref: 2003 December 12, Pengyu Zeng, “Who Can Help the Children?”, in Beijing Today, number 133, →ISSN, →OCLC, Special Report, page 8, column 3:
text: Another well-preserved site from eastern Henan, Mengzhuang in Zhecheng County, yielded evidence of a three- or four-chamber house (Figure 2.8), as well as pottery kilns, and nearby pounded earth foundations."
ref: 2006, Robert L. Thorp, “Foundations of the Bronze Age: The Erligang Culture”, in China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:
text: In June, Ms. Liu filed for divorce in the Zhecheng County court in Henan Province, showing the video of the boutique beating as evidence.
ref: 2020 September 16, Sui-Lee Wee, “Her Husband Abused Her. But Getting a Divorce Was an Ordeal.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2020, Asia Pacific:
text: A fire in a martial arts gym in Zhecheng County, central China's Henan Province, Friday morning, has left 18 people dead and 16 others injured, said local authorities.
ref: 2021 June 25, “Martial arts gym fire leaves 18 dead”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022:
glosses: A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
Zhoukou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jōʹkōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).
Senses: examples: text: Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.
ref: [1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 7:
text: In order to solve the problem in Fukou County, the Honan provincial and Choukou prefectural CCP committees in May this year sent a joint work group to the country.
ref: [1978 September 19 [1978 September 13], “The Importance of Reforming Leading Bodies as Seen From the Fukou Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 182, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service and People's Daily frontpage, translation of original by Lin Hsi and Shih Te-lien (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 5:
text: Last November, the City of Zhoukou, Henan Province issued an administrative notice ordering families to demolish or move their ancestral tombs.
ref: 2013 March 1, Hongyi Zhao, “Moving graves a headache for all”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Preachers are coached on how to convey Communist Party core values in their sermons and national flags and songs have been injected into some church services, he said.
Liu provided the AP with a notice sent to churches in Zhoukou, a city to the east of Nanyang in Henan province.
ref: 2018 December 24, Erika Kinetz, Chen Si, “Santa gets pushed out as China’s leaders emphasize tradition”, in AP News, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2023:
text: As recently as last month, she had said, Chinese police called on her friends and colleagues in Zhoukou, the city in Henan province that was the site of much of her whistleblowing work, in an effort to pressure Dr. Wang to halt a play about her story on stage at the Hampstead Theatre in London.
ref: 2019 September 25, Emily Langer, “Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019, Obituaries:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Luyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lo͞oʹyēʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 鹿邑.
Senses: examples: text: The region was hit by a rainstorm at the time when the wheat was milking, and daily rainfall exceeded 200 milimetres in many communes and production brigades in the worst afflicted Luyi County. The Luyi County party committee led the commune members in draining the fields in the midst of heavy rain, thus freeing them from inundation.
ref: 1974, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: In 2003, the court of Luyi County in Henan Province issued its verdict in a lawsuit involving AIDS infection by blood transfusion, ruling that the defendant, the clinic of Xinji Town in Luyi County pay the plaintiff a total of 400,000 yuan in compensation for psychological trauma and to cover expenses for continuing treatment, pay the plaintiff’s elder daughter a total of 110,000 yuan as compensation for psychological trauma and living expenses, and pay the plaintiff’s wife and second daughter a total of 30,000 yuan for medical fees, compensation for bereavement and funeral costs.
ref: 2004, Guomei (夏国美) Xia, HIV/AIDS in China (艾滋病在中国）, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:
text: The director of the federation’s Luyi County office, Guo Yanfang, said the organization has been spreading the word about the new anti-domestic violence law and encouraging survivors to seek help.
ref: 2016 May 2, Emily Rauhala, Gu Jinglu, “Domestic abuse is thriving in China’s culture of silence”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 03 May 2016:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Dancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)dɑnˈt͡ʃʌŋ/
ipa: /(ˈ)dænˈt͡ʃɛŋ/
enpr: dänʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Tan-ch'eng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄲城 /郸城 (Dānchéng).
Senses: examples: text: According to Chairman Mao's instruction on having the poor and lower-middle peasants administer schools, the party branch of the (Choulou) production brigade of the (Wuchai) commune in Tancheng County, Honan Province, has grasped 10 things in carrying out revolution in education by relying on the poor and lower-middle peasants since the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
ref: [1975 December 2 [1975 November 25], “Do a Good Job in Carrying Out Revolution in Education in Accordance with Chairman Mao's Instructions”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 232, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from People's Daily and Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Central-South Region, page H 1:
text: The interest rates paid for private credit were extremely high in some areas. One such case was recorded in a study of Dancheng County, Henan Province. The study found that the combined revenues for production teams was 21.76 million yuan between January and September 1979, yet the expenditure was 36.33 million yuan.
ref: 1988, Justin Yifu Lin, “Rural Factor Markets in China After the Household Responsibility System Reform”, in Chinese Economic Policy: Economic Reform at Midstream, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190:
text: Widely shared video footage of Dong Hong, mayor of Dancheng county in Henan province, showed him saying at a meeting that “anyone returning home from medium or high-risk areas will be quarantined and then detained”.
ref: 2022 January 23, Phoebe Zhang, “Covid-19: Chinese mayor derided after detention threat for Lunar New Year returnees”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022, Politics:
glosses: A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
Biko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bikos
Senses: glosses: A surname.