Pingba

See also: píngbà

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 平壩 / 平坝 (Píngbà).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭng′bä′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Ping‧ba

Proper noun

Pingba

  1. A district of Anshun, Guizhou, China, formerly a county.
    • [1972 February 16 [1972 February 16], “Nationwide 'Support-Army' Fetes Hail Spring Festival”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 33, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page B 2:
      Leading members of the Fenghuang commune revolutionary committee and brigade cadres of Pingpa County in Kweichow Province, Southwest China, led the people in helping solve difficulties in the daily life of such families.]
    • 1988, John P. Burns, “The Organizational Context of Political Participation in Rural China”, in Political Participation in Rural China‎[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:
      A substantial minority of party members in the brigade were probably recruited during the Cultural Revolution; in Guizhou’s Pingba County, for example, 40.9 percent of the county’s 1,522 party branch members were recruited from 1966 to 1976.

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References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Pingpa or P’ing-pa”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1
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