Xiangshui

See also: xiāngshuǐ

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiang-shui (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 响水 (Xiǎngshuǐ).

Proper noun

Xiangshui

1. A county of Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.
   • [1970 April 2 [1970 March 24], “NEW KIANGSU COUNTY INCREASES AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 64, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page C 8‎^[1]:

     "Firmly adhering to Chairman Mao's principle 'take grain as the key link and insure and all-round development,' the broad masses of poor and lower-middle peasants, commune members, and revolutionary cadres of Hsiangshui [8207 3055] County, Kiangsu Province, have relied on their own efforts to wage hard struggles, transformed an akaline beach into farmland, and raised their agricultural output. […]
     "Hsiangshui County is situated along the coast of the Yellow Sea in northern Kiangsu, a lowland usually subjected to drought and water-logging.]

   • [1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East‎^[2], British Broadcasting Corporation, →OCLC, page A-4:

     Kiangsu Leading members of the Hsiangshui County CCP Committee have linked the study and application of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung thought with invest- […]]

   • 1996, Gordon White, Jude Howell, Xiaoyuan Shang, “Urban Women and the Women's Federation”, in In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China‎^[3], Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     In many rural areas of China women cadres have virtually disappeared. For example in Xiangshui County in Jiangsu Province, the number of women serving as secretaries/ deputy secretaries or heads/deputy heads of basic level collective organizations fell from 93 in late 1979 to 12 in 1990 (Zhang Yaofang 1993).

   • 2019 March 22, Austin Ramzy, Javier C. Hernández, “Police in China Detain Chemical Plant Employees After Explosion Kills 47”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-22, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Concerns about the chemical industry are widespread in Jiangsu, which is China’s leading producer of agricultural chemicals. A blast at a chemical plant killed seven people in Xiangshui County in 2007. Four years later, late-night rumors that flammable gas was leaking from a plant sent thousands of people fleeing, and four people were killed in a traffic accident.

2. A town in Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.

Translations

county in eastern China; town in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 响水 (zh) (Xiǎngshuǐ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Xiangshui, Hsiangshui, Hsiang-shui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.