Xinyang

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsin-yang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 信陽／信阳 (Xìnyáng).

Xinyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • 1996, Becker, Jasper, “An Overview of the Famine”, in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine‎, The Free Press, →ISBN, LCCN 96-32803, OCLC 243695119, page 104:

     In Henan’s Xinyang prefecture, one of the worst affected areas in the country, the Party Secretary Lu Xianwen would travel to local communes and order in advance elaborate banquets of twenty-four courses, according to Party documents. Only at the village level did the lowest officials such as production team leaders sometimes starve to death.

• Yangxin