Mien-yang
Mien-yang is the alternative form of Mianyang.
Meaning of Mianyang
Proper noun (1)
Mianyang
- A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
- The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.
- But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.2008 May 29, Tyra Dempster, “Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 May 2022, World News
Proper noun (2)
Mianyang
- A county of Hubei, China; present-day Xiantao.
- In particular, the communist wind of ‘one, equalization, two, transfer” (yiping erdiao) continued to blow in many areas, and land set aside for peasant cultivation (ziliudi) was still being made collective. One outstanding example of such abuses was Tonghaikou commune in Hubei’s Mianyang county: 41...1996, Dali L. Yang, “Rural Liberalization”, in Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Forward, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press...
Origin of Mien-yang
From Mandarin 綿陽 /绵阳 (Miányáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Mien³-yang².
From Mandarin 沔陽 /沔阳 (Miǎnyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Mien³-yang².
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- Mien-yang is the alternative form of Mianyang.
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