Weinan
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- A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
- 1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796[3], Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:
- When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.
- 2014 October 24, Austin Ramzy, “In One Chinese City, Underperformers Also Share the Limelight”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-06, Sinosphere[5]:
- Weinan, in the western province of Shaanxi, has found a new way to encourage local districts to improve their performance on a series of development-related goals such as infrastructure projects and tax collection.
- 2021 January 27, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters[6], archived from the original on 27 January 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:
- A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Weinan.
Translations
editprefecture-level city
References
edit- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Weinan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2072, column 2
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Weinan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 3
- Weinan, Wei-nan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.