Hengshan

• (from Wade-Giles) Heng-shan

From Mandarin 橫山／横山 (Héngshān).

Hengshan

1. A district of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1938, Snow, Edgar, Red Star Over China‎, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 518:

     Born in Hengshan, Shensi, in 1891, he and Liu Chih-tan built the Party there, and its isolated Red base became a sanctuary for the Communists at the end of the Long March.

   • 1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Li Yiu-hua, Maurice Michael, transl., Rapport från kinesisk [Report from a Chinese Village]‎, New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 339:

     Then he tried to run away. He wanted to get to Yulin, 240 li away, or to Hengshan, 120 li away.

   • [1968, Chang, Kwang-chih, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

     Small arrowheads, small elongated scrapers, and microblades have been found in the Heiliut’uho Valley in Heng-shan Hsien, in what may be a nonceramic context.]

   • 2001 July 16, “41 Die in China Explosives Blast”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:

     Investigators said the accident was caused by explosives illegally stored at a home in Hengshan County in Shaanxi Province, Xinhua said. […]
     Officials in Hengshan County could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hengshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1266, column 3