Shangrao

See also: Shàngráo

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上饒 / 上饶 (Shàngráo).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shängʹrouʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Shang‧rao

Proper noun

Shangrao

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
    • 1979 August 24 [1979 August 21], “We Must Attach Importance To Educating and Reforming Youngsters Who Violate the Law and Commit Crimes”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 166, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanchang Jiangxi Provincial Service and Jiangxi Ribao, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page O 1:
      However, can we step up ideological education among delinquents who commit ordinary offenses for the first time as they will correct their behaviors? The experiences of Shangrao Municipality in this respect merit our attention.
    • 2021 November 14, Austin Ramzy, “A video of decontamination workers clubbing a pet corgi stirs anger in China.”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 November 2021, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      According to an account on the Twitter-like platform Weibo that first shared the video, the owners had been sent to hotel quarantine along with other residents of their neighborhood in the city of Shangrao, in Jiangxi Province.
  2. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
    • 2018 April 20, Louise Moon, “Elderly Chinese paid for destroying their own coffins to be burned as fuel”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 April 2018, Society‎[5]:
      Within five days, about 400 villagers in Shangrao county in Jiangxi province volunteered to use excavators to smash their own coffins under the watch of local officials last Sunday, it stated.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shangjao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1743, column 3