Dongsheng
English
Alternative forms
- Tung-sheng (Wade–Giles)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔŋ.ʃɛŋ/, /dɒŋ-/, /-ʃʌŋ/
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東勝/东胜 (Dōngshèng).
Proper noun
Dongsheng
- A district of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.
- 1999, Hong Jiang, “Human driving forces of environmental change”, in The Ordos Plateau of China: An Endangered Environment, United Nations University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
- Most villages subscribe to local newspapers, but when they arrive their contents are no longer news; it takes seven days to deliver newspaper from the League centre, Dongsheng, and more than 20 days for newspapers to arrive from outside the area.
- 2015 March 6, Jody Rosen, “The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 September 2015:
- In 2006, the headquarters of the local government was moved to Kangbashi from the Dongsheng District, 20 miles north; bus service between Kangbashi and Dongsheng was allegedly cut off so that Ordos’s public officials would be forced to take up residence in the new town.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongsheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1044, column 2
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東升 (Dōngshēng).
Proper noun
Dongsheng
Translations
town and village in central China
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