Baode

Proper noun

Baode

1. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
   • In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain.[1970 December 16 [1970 December 7], “Shansi Peasants Emulate Tachai, Win Bumper Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 243, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking...
   • The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have...[2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52