Chongyang
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崇陽 / 崇阳 (Chóngyáng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃɔŋˈjæŋ/, /-ˈjɑŋ/
- enPR: cho͝ongʹyängʹ[1]
- Hyphenation: Chong‧yang
Proper noun
Chongyang
- A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
- [1979, Evelyn Rawski, “The Availability of Elementary Education”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87[3]:
- In Hupei, clan schools recorded in local gazetteers amounted to 23 percent of the schools in Huang-kang county, and from 27 to 47 percent of those in Ch'ung-yang county.]
- 1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions[4], Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:
- In the far south-east, Chongyang County had over 5,000 Christians by 1992 meeting in twelve “spontaneous meeting-points” (i.e. house churches) according to the TSPM.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chongyang.
Translations
county
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsungyang or Ch’ung-yang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1955, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 792, column 2