P'ing-shun

See also: píngshùn and Pingshun

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平順 / 平顺 (Píngshùn) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻing²-shun⁴.

Proper noun

P'ing-shun

  1. Alternative form of Pingshun.
    • 1977 April 1 [1976 January], Wang Hua [3769 2901] [王樺], “Honan Province”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 376, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Great Changes in China An Economic Report, Hong Kong SHEN-CHOU CHU PIEN, Ching-chi Tao Pao (The Economic Reporter) Press, p 97, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 30:
      After more than 10 years of arduous struggle, the people of Lin County, since 1960, have drilled 134 tunnels, erected 150 ferries, dug 1,500 kilometers of ditches, constructed the world famous "Red Flag Canal" on steep cliffs and led the roaring Chang River from P'ing-shun county in the adjacent Shansi province to the great plains of Lin county which had been dry for a thousand years.
    • 1983, William Hinton, “Get Little Shen!”, in Shenfan‎[1], New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 658:
      On the fifth day they headed eastward toward Shihhui. Their route took them past Tu Street, the home of Kuo Ming-en’s aunt. Leaving Kuo there they limped on to Ma Family Mountain in P’ing- shun County, only to find that Huai Teng-k’e’s widowed mother had remarried and moved to West Slope.
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