Taipingxi

• (from Wade–Giles) T'ai-p'ing-hsi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 太平溪 (Tàipíngxī).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtaɪpɪŋˈʃiː/

Taipingxi

1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • [1960, Hsiao, Kung-chuan, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 532:

     In the fifth year of K'ang-hsi [1666] Huang Yü-hsüan, the magistrate, established the three t'u of T'ai-p'ing Hsi Hsiang, restoring the original number.]

   • 1988, Kenneth Lieberthal; Michel Oksenberg, Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structures, and Processes‎, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 314:

     On the issue of a dam site, the YVPO and those who build protective engineering projects (fanghu gongcheng) favored the Taipingxi site; the shipping and construction departments favored the Sandouping site; and others felt that they lacked sufficient information to make a well-grounded decision.

   • 1996, Simon Winchester, The River at the Center of the World‎, New York: Picador, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224:

     Two years later still came the recommendation that the dam be built at yet another place, this one called Taipingxi: on this site the builders would need less concrete, but there would have to be more costly excavation. Taipingxi the generals also liked: they could set up lots of antiaircraft guns here, they reported. But the excavation costs scuppered this choice a year or so later.

   • 1998, Dai Qing, Yi Ming, transl.; John G. Thibodeau, Philip B. Williams, editor, The River Dragon has Come! The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:

     Taipingxi Township, Yichang County, provided experience from developing tea farms on which relocatees can be resettled.

   • 2018 April 29, “Xi calls for maintaining new development philosophy, winning ‘three tough battles’”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China‎, archived from the original on 01 April 2022:

     President Xi Jinping takes a wooden club used to beat clothes in washing from a villager and talks with villagers at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018. Xujiachong is a village for people relocated to make way for the construction of the Three Gorges project.[...]
     President Xi Jinping talks with residents at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018.[...]
     President Xi Jinping talks with village officials at Xujiachong village of Taipingxi town in Yichang city, Central China’s Hubei province, April 24, 2018.

2. A village in Taipingxi, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.

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