Shandong
English
Alternative forms
- (from Hanyu Pinyin) Shan-dong, Shan-Dong, Shan Dong
- (from Wade–Giles) Shantung, Shan-tung, Shan-Tung, Shan Tung
- (obsolete) Xantung, Xan-tung, Xan-Tung, Xan Tung
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 山東／山东 (Shāndōng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃænˈdʊŋ/, /ʃɑn-/, /-ˈdɒŋ/
Proper noun
Shandong
- A coastal province of China, part of the East China region. Capital: Jinan
- 1975, Goldwasser, Janet; Stuart Dowty, quoting Zhou Min-fu, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
- We couldn’t solve this problem by the force of one co-op alone, so we united co-ops. But the people were still discussing the best form of agricultural production.
“Then Chairman Mao inspected agriculture in Shandong Province and issued the call for people’s communes, summed up in his slogan, ‘People’s Communes are Fine!’
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Derived terms
Translations
province of China
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References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 483: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Shan-tung (Shandong) 山東”
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