Sandouping

• (from Wade–Giles) San-tou-p'ing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 三斗坪 (Sāndǒupíng).

Sandouping

1. A town in Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • 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, →OL, page 44:

     The rural dwellers who will be moved are scattered throughout 19 counties and municipalities, from Sandouping in Yichang Municipality, to Mudong Township in Ba County.

   • 2002, Chetham, Deirdre, “War Along the Yangtze”, in Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:

     The town of Sandouping in Xiling Gorge, now the site of the Three Gorges Dam, was known for a short time as "Little Wuhan" because of all the commercial activity generated by the thousands of people who stopped there on the way to Chongqing.

   • 2009 January 8, Kemp, John, “Downturn hits China's manufacturing heartland: John Kemp”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 27 August 2022, Columns‎:

     Even before the onset of the economic crisis, power availability was improving owing to the completion of the Three Gorges dam and the installation of the last of the massive generating turbines at Sandouping.

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2. A residential community in Sandouping, Yiling district, Yichang, Hubei, China.