Kuandian

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 寬甸 / 宽甸 (Kuāndiàn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kwän′dyĕn′[2]
  • Hyphenation: Kuan‧dian

Proper noun

Kuandian

  1. A Manchu autonomous county in Dandong, Liaoning, China.
    • 1979 April 12 [1979 February 13], “Liaoning Hydroelectricity”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 508, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Shenyang Liaoning Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Economic, page 42:
      The 16 small hydro-power stations run by Kuandian County provide 80 percent of the electricity for agricultural use in this county.
    • 2010 August 22, “Flood threat forces mass evacuation in north-east China”, in France 24‎[3], sourced from AFP, archived from the original on 23 October 2010, Asia / Pacific‎[4]:
      A couple in their 70s and a mother and son died in Kuandian county, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Dandong, when flash floods swept away their homes, Xinhua said, citing a local flood control official.
    • 2018, Fenggang Yang, “Northeast China [东北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts‎[5], Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102, columns 1–2:
      Liaoning has the largest population of Manchu people in China, who mainly dwell in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County 宽甸满族自治县 in eastern Dandong Prefecture 丹东市, a region that borders North Korea. Since the 1980s, ethnic minorities have gained much more room for self-expression and there have been many attempts to restore Manchurian ethnic culture, including establishing Manchu-language schools and reviving Manchu rituals. Many obsolete cultural attributes that are significant for legitimizing an ethnic group in China have been adapted by the group to reinforce the previously weakened Manchu identity. For instance, in 2015, Shenyang Music Conservatory established the first music program in the province-level intangible cultural heritage project and conducted fieldwork in Kuandian to observe Manchurian shamanic rituals.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuandian.

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References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 234: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Kuandian/K'uan-tien 40°45′N 124°41′E, 33”
  2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kwantien or K’uan-tien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 998, column 2

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