Xincai

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsin-ts'ai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新蔡 (Xīncài).

Xincai

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1974, Chu, Li (朱力); Tien Chieh-yun (田洁云), 在七里营人民公社里 [Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying]‎, Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 121:

     His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one.]

   • 1990, quoting Chen Yizi (陳一諮), Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.

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