Xingguo

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsing-kuo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 興國／兴国 (Xīngguó).

Xingguo

1. A county of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
   • [1972 March, Chi Hung, “An Old Revolutionary Base—Yesterday and Today”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXI, number 3, Peking, →OCLC, pages 24-25:

     HSINGKUO county in the hilly region of southern Kiangsi province was one of China’s earliest revolutionary bases. […]
     Surrounded by mountains and crossed by the Lienchiang River, Hsingkuo county lies in a beautiful natural setting.]

   • 1985, Salisbury, Harrison E., “A Walk by Moonlight”, in The Long March‎, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:

     Chen Yi cursed as he had a hundred times since he had been carried from the front in Xingguo county six weeks ago with a bullet wound in his hip which refused to heal.

   • 1990, Mao, Zedong, Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu‎, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:

     There are very few geomancers in Xunwu County; most of them are from Xingguo.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xingguo.