Xingyang

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsing-yang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滎陽／荥阳 (Xíngyáng).

Xingyang

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • [1979 February, Chao Chien, “The Chin Dynasty: Unified Fedual Rule”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXVIII, number 2, China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 63:

     Wu Kuang, who had been leading another army in an attack at Hsingyang (west of present-day Chengchow in Honan province), a strategic town held by the Chin forces, was killed by a subordinate officer.]

   • [1985, Domes, Jürgen, “Social Developments and Problems”, in The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 84-29939, OCLC 1145273818, OL 2866532M, page 216:

     Only the teams continued to function as production units, but for them, the pre-1958 term "agricultural production cooperative" was now used again.⁶⁹ Similar provisions were suggested in a statement made by the secretary of the district (ti-ch'ü) PC of Hsingyang in Honan,⁷⁰ a move that seems particularly delicate because the district of Hsingyang includes Suip'ing hsien, where, in mid-April 1958, the first people's commune in China had been established.]