Pingshan

From Mandarin 平山 (Píngshān).

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋ.ʃɑn/, enPR: pĭng′shän′^[1]
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: Ping‧shan

Pingshan

1. A district of Benxi, Liaoning, China.
2. A county of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, in northeastern China.
   • [1973 February 16 [1972 February], “Miscellaneous Geographical Data on PRC Published”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 214, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking, Shih-chieh Ti-t'u-ts'e (World Atlas), translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 3:

     Ch'in-huang-tao Shih-chia-chuang is the location of the Hopeh provincial revolutionary committee. Its textile, iron and steel, machine, and chemical industries are developed. Hsi-pai-p'o in P'ing-shan County, about 70 kilometers or more to the northwest of the city, was the site of the historic Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, which was personally presided over and convened by Chairman Mao.]

   • 1979 January, “Capital of One of the Warring States”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXVIII, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:

     THE remains of the capital of the State of Chungshan founded by nomadic people from the north provide additional insight into life in the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.). Excavation was done between 1974 and 1977 in present-day Pingshan county, which is just northwest of the city of Shihchiachuang in western Hopei province.

   • [1995, Jacques Gernet, “The Circuit of Giving”, in Franciscus Verellen, transl., Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries (Studies in Asian Culture)‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225:

     And the hotels for pilgrims at Mt. Wu-t’ai were not the only ones in China: at the Yün-chü monastery of Mount Fang (in P’ing-shan county in modern Hopeh) there was an “equitable refectory” (i-fan t’ing).¹⁴⁹ Some chapels were even constructed for the specific purpose of providing a shelter to travelers.]

   • 1999 April 28, Eric Pace, “Cao Huoxing, 75; Wrote Patriotic Chinese Music”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World‎^[4]:

     Mr. Cao was born in Pingshan county in Hebei Province, in northern China. He was a composer from the age of 16 and reportedly wrote more than 1,500 songs.

   • 2014 April 5, “China sentences 2 to death in fatal poisoning”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 07 September 2022‎^[6]:

     Two sisters died after drinking the yogurt, which was placed with a notebook and a pencil in a plastic bag on the way to the other kindergarten in Pingshan County.
     Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court in northern China found both the headmaster and the accomplice guilty of poisoning and sentenced them to death, CCTV said.

• “Pingshan, P'ing-shan, Ping-shan”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pingtan Island”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2441, column 3