Guangshan

English

Alternative forms

• Kuangshan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 光山.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gwängʹshänʹ
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: Guang‧shan

Proper noun

Guangshan

1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
   • 1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine‎^[2], The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

     In a small village in Guangshan county in Henan, Mrs Liu Xiaohua, now aged 65, still vividly remembers the events of thirty-six years ago. One afternoon in 1994, perched on a small footstool, dressed in faded blue cotton trousers and smock, and occasionally smoking a cigarette, she recalled what had happened. On the muddy path leading from her village, dozens of corpses lay unburied. In the barren fields there were others; and amongst the dead, the survivors crawled slowly on their hands and knees searching for wild grass seeds to eat. In the ponds and ditches people squatted in the mud hunting for frogs and trying to gather weeds.

   • 2012 December 14, “Man Stabs 22 Children in China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Deember 2012, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     The attack, in the village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 光山

  Mandarin: 光山 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 2