Minquan

See also: mínquán

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 民權／民权 (Mínquán).

Proper noun

Minquan

1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
   • [1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “NCNA Correspondent: Gang Exploited Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume 1, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 5:

     Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^{[sic – meaning Huangchuang]} brigade of Lungtang commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.]

   • 1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why‎^[2], New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:

     In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民權／民权 (zh) (Mínquán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can