Shangcheng

From Mandarin 商城 (Shāngchéng).

• enPR: shängʹchǔngʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Shang‧cheng

Shangcheng

1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
   • 1958 November 24, Anna Louise Strong, “China's newest crusade: Home-made steel”, in National Guardian‎^[2], volume 11, number 6, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:

     For one learns that the first conference ever held on local methods of steel smelting has just taken place in Shangcheng county in Honan and has approved two native methods out of the dozens shat have been used.

   • 1974 November 21 [1974 November 16], “Honan Daily Article Comments on Rustication”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 226, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1‎^[3]:

     The newsletter noted that (Hsu) and his comrades-in-arms had settled on a mountain-encircled brigade in Shangcheng County in January 1969. He had died in early 1972 while working with explosives to open up Tachai-type farmland. The Shangcheng County CCP Committee had admitted him posthumously to the party in May 1972.

   • 2018 October 9, Alice Yan, “China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 October 2018, China‎^[5]:

     The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.