Shishou
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Etymology[edit]
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu).
Proper noun[edit]
Shishou
- A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- [1980, Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short, “The Twenty-third Fighter Group: November-December 1943”, in Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945[1], Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 377:
- They strafed Shihshou and along the eastern shore of the great Tungting Lake.]
- 2009 July 17, Edward Wong, “Chinese Question Police Absence in Ethnic Riots”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-23, Asia Pacific[3]:
- Last month, tens of thousands of residents of Shishou, in Hubei Province, clashed with riot police officers over the mysterious death of a hotel chef.