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Qipan

Syllables: Qi·pan

Qipan proper noun: a township in Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Qipan

  1. A township in Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
    • “I have met old people who held my hands and told me tearfully that they preferred to die early,” wrote a township Party secretary, Li Changping, “and I have seen the sad sight of children kneeling before me saying they want to attend school.” In Li’s Qipan, also in Jianli County, society is...2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201
    • In his letter, Mr Li revealed the bleak situation in Qipan township. Almost all the young people in the township had left to find work in cities and 65 per cent of the farmland had been left idle. A family of five paid at least 350 yuan (HK$329) a year for each mu (0.07 of a hectare) of farmland...2002 January 27, Josephine Ma, “Champion of the downtrodden has no regrets”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2022

Examples of Qipan in a sentence

  • That was futile because the well-intentioned Zhu has little power in Qipan and most other places in the countryside.2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Trade Charade: WTO Accession Will Trigger Collapse”, in The Coming Collapse of China (Business/Current Affairs)...
  • In his letter, Mr Li revealed the bleak situation in Qipan township.2002 January 27, Josephine Ma, “Champion of the downtrodden has no regrets”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 13...

Origin of Qipan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 棋盤／棋盘 (Qípán).

Questions about Qipan

What does Qipan mean?
Qipan means a township in Jianli, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
How do you use Qipan in a sentence?
That was futile because the well-intentioned Zhu has little power in Qipan and most other places in the countryside.
What part of speech is Qipan?
Qipan is a proper noun.

Words near Qipan in the dictionary

  1. qiné
  2. qinés
  3. Qionghai
  4. Qiongshan
  5. Qiongzhong
  6. Qipan
  7. qipao
  8. qipaos
  9. Qipchak
  10. Qipchaks
  11. Qipchaq

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