Lankao

English

Alternative forms

• Lan-k'ao (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 蘭考／兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Proper noun

Lankao

1. A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
   • 1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:

     IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.

   • 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71]‎^[2], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:

     Lankao County in Honan
     In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.

   • 2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Emerging Markets:

     “The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
     Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lankao.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘭考／兰考 (zh) (Lánkǎo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lankao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1684, column 1