Xuan'en

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).

Proper noun

Xuan'en

  1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • 2011, Dikötter, Frank, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
      Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.

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