Chengdong

Proper noun

Chengdong

1. A district of Xining, Qinghai, China.
   • According to QINGHAI RIBAO, on the second day of the lunar new year, Zhao Haifeng, secretary of the provincial CPC Committee, (Zhang Jifu), deputy mayor of Xining, and other leading comrades went to a new residential area in (Linjiaya), (Yuanshan) in (Chengdong) District, Xining City, to call on...1985 April 2 [1985 February 27], “Qinghai's Shao Haifeng Calls on People of Hui Nationality”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 85-032, sourced from Xining Qinghai...
   • Though the walls have since been razed, the boundaries they once demarcated remain salient as Xining's contemporary street grid follows the path where they once stood. Most residents still recognize the city's Chengdong District, which sits on top of the former Muslim city, as the Hui Quarter.2022, David R. Stroup, “"God is a Drug": Ethnic Politics in the Xi Jinping Era”, in Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims, University of Washington Press, →ISBN...