Shuangyashan
See also: Shuāngyāshān
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 雙鴨山／双鸭山 (Shuāngyāshān).
Proper noun
[edit]Shuangyashan
- A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
- 2014, Reshma Patil, “Boomtown”, in Strangers Across the Border: Indian Encounters in Boomtown China[1] (International Relations), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 162:
- Shuangyashan is located in north-east China, in a forested province named Heilongjiang after the ‘black dragon river’. The temperature slips below zero for a greater part of the year.
- 2016 March 18, Gerry Shih, “Anger in China’s coal country as miners feel left behind”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 24 August 2022[3]:
- Frustration among miners like Li over unpaid wages has swelled to the brink of unrest in Heilongjiang province in China’s far northeast, also known as Manchuria. It spilled over most recently a week ago when thousands of miners protested in the town of Shuangyashan, a direct challenge to Beijing’s assertion that it is proceeding smoothly with a sweeping plan to cut capacity in industrial sectors and make the economy more efficient.
- 2018 April 2, Harvey Thomlinson, “China’s Communist Party Is Abandoning Workers”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-02, Opinion[5]:
- The government’s default approach to labor disputes has been to treat them as a threat to law and order. After a widely reported miners’ strike in the northeastern city of Shuangyashan in 2016, for example, the Public Security Bureau arrested 30 people for what it called serious criminal charges.