Zhongxiang

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).

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Zhongxiang

  1. A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.
    • [1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:
      The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
      THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.
      ]
    • 2017 August 21 [August 18, 2017], Zhao, Kiki, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific:
      In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. []
      She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.

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