Chengcheng
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Alternative forms
- Ch'eng-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)
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Chengcheng
- A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
- [1980, Cho-yun Hsu, edited by Jack L. Dull, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 260:
- Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.]
- 2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
- Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).
- 2008 October 29, Beijing newsroom, “China mine gas blast traps 29”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 April 2023, Asia Crisis:
- A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has trapped at least 29 people, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a series of colliery accidents across the country.
The blast occurred late on Wednesday in Chengcheng county, Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief report.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengcheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 1
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