langshan

Noun capitalized: Langshan

Langshan (plural Langshans)

1. A chicken of any of various breeds supposed to have originated from Langshan in China.
2. A mountain range in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
3. A hill in Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
   • The growth of Langshan was a different story. The Buddhist monastery Guangjiao (Broad Teaching) for which Langshan was noted can be traced back to the Tang dynasty, when the hill it now stands on was still an island in the Yangzi, and a ferry was used for pilgrimages. Langshan subsequently became...2003, Qin Shao, “The Model in Space and Time”, in Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71