Daxing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大興／大兴 (Dàxīng).

Daxing

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • [1975, Howard, Roger, “New Workers' and Peasants' Amateur Theatre”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XIV, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, column 2:

     Even a short item, like Shoes to Strike Roots, by the amateur propaganda team of Tahsing county, near Peking, may use an elementary dialectic. This ten-minute dance provides a reminder of a tradition of the revolutionary wars when village women showed their support for the red soldiers by sewing cloth shoes for them out of pieces of rag.]

   • 2017 November 19, Buckley, Chris, “Fire Kills at Least 19 in Beijing Apartment Building”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 November 2017, Asia Pacific‎:

     The fire broke out Saturday evening in a two-story structure in the Daxing District, about 11 miles south of the Chinese capital’s prosperous downtown. Around 6 p.m., the flames began consuming the building, and thick smoke spilled into the air. Firefighters spent three hours battling the fire, according to a news release from Daxing officials.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daxing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 977, column 1