Bishan
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碧山.
Proper noun
[edit]Bishan
- A planning area and residential town in Singapore.
Etymology 2
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 璧山 (Bìshān).
Proper noun
[edit]Bishan
- A district of Chongqing, China.
- [1979, Lynn T. White III, “Local Newspapers and Community Change, 1949-1969”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, editors, Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:
- When by 1958 it was announced that Pishan County in Szechwan had 113 local mimeographed papers, this trend was praised in Peking: "If the articles are about local persons and local happenings, the masses like to read them."]
- 2018 December 18, Tom Daly, “China agriculture ministry confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Chongqing”, in David Evans, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 20 June 2022, Non-cyclical Consumer Goods:
- The virus was detected on a farm with 23 pigs in Chongqing’s Bishan district, infecting eight animals and killing three, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement.
- 2020, Namrata Goswami, Peter A. Garretson, Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space[3], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:
- In continuation of such statements, China became the first country in the world to establish a state-funded SBSP base plant in Chongqing's Bishan district in 2019.
Translations
[edit]district
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 437, column 1
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