Xincai
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See also: xīncái
Alternative forms
- Hsin-ts'ai (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新蔡 (Xīncài).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Xincai
- A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
- [1974, Li (朱力) Chu, 田洁云, 在七里营人民公社里, Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 121:
- His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one.]
- [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
- In Hsintsai county, there was Wang Hsin-an, a soldier on reserve. A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south.]
- [1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 113, 319:
- One example of this type of dissension within Nien ranks was reported in Hsin-ts’ai County in 1845. A Nien chief in the county had led sixteen followers to stage a robbery in which they had made off with a sizable haul of animals, clothing, and bedding. […]
Hsin-ts’ai County (Honan), 113]
- 2002 August 25, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “AIDS Scourge in Rural China Leaves Villages of Orphans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-11-19, World:
- According to unpublished statistics from the United Nations Development Program, the number of families living below the official poverty line in Xincai, the county that includes Donghu, skyrocketed last year, to 270,000 from 40,000. Breadwinners fell ill, and families spent whatever they could scrape together for food and care.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xincai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3503, column 1
- Xincai, Hsintsai, Hsin-ts'ai at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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