Maoping

• Mao-p'ing (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 茅坪 (Máopíng).

Maoping

1. A town in Zigui, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, “The Eve of the Flood”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     Zigui, home of the Qu Yuan temple, was the first town to be completely relocated when, in 1999, the residents moved downstream to Maoping, not far from the dam site.

   • 2007 May 8, “Shifting land leads to evacuation in Three Gorges”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 10 May 2007‎:

     The relocation will affect all 99 residents of Miaohe, a village in the Maoping Township, in Zigui County, Central China's Hubei Province, which sits on the northern bank of the Yangtze, China's longest river.