Huairou
See also: huáiróu
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 懷柔／怀柔 (Huáiróu).
Proper noun
Huairou
- A district of Beijing, China.
- [1990, Waldron, Arthur, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 236:
- Recent reports attribute the first walls in the Mu-t’ien-yü valley in Huai-jou county near Peking to the Northern Sung.]
- 2014 November 12, MacLeod, Calum, “As with 2008 Olympics, China spends big to look good”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 November 2014:
- The greatest impact, good and bad, fell on the city's northeast suburbs, 60-plus minutes from the downtown Huairou district, a key APEC venue. Obama and other VIPs spent just seven hours there Tuesday, but Huairou went to town as perhaps only China can. The district spent about $4.9 billion preparing for APEC, according to state media including the Beijing Youth Daily and China Daily newspapers.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huairou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1320, column 3
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