Baqiao
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[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 灞橋/灞桥.
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[edit]Baqiao
- A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 1983, “Author's Biographies”, in Helen Siu, Zelda Stern, editors, Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page Ii:
- Chen Zhongshi was born in 1942 in a village near Sian, Shanxi province.[...]He is at present working at the Cultural Center, Baqiao district, Sian.
- 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Buddhist Sculpture and the Beilin Collection: A Perspective”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries[2], New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:
- The drapery details around the ankles are also similar to the flattened and scalloped drapery visible at the ankles of the five monumental Buddhas recently unearthed in Wanzi village, in the Baqiao district of Xi’an (see Zhao Liguang’s essay, figs. 1-4, 5).
- 2011 September 18, “10 killed in NW China's rain-triggered landslide”, in China Daily[3], archived from the original on 24 September 2011[4]:
- Excavators work during a rescue operation at the site where a landslide occurred in Baqiao District of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province, Sept. 18, 2011.
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