Xuan'en
English
Alternative forms
- Suanen (Postal Romanization)
- Süanen
- Hsuan-en, Hsüan-en (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).
Proper noun
Xuan'en
- A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
- 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
- Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.
- [2020 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Ex-prison inmate infected with coronavirus travels from Wuhan to Beijing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-27, People & Culture:
- A source from Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital, said the patient was Huang Dengying, a 61-year-old former official in Xuanen county who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013 for taking bribes, but released early on February 17.]
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuan’en”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3
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