Luoshan

English

Alternative forms

• Lo-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 羅山／罗山 (Luóshān).

Proper noun

Luoshan

1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
   • 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:

     Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power. Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.

   • 2019 February 28, Yanan Wang, “Chinese rights lawyer disappears on prison release date”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 September 2022‎^[3]:

     Jin said Jiang’s sister visited him earlier this month and reported that he was in poor health. His skin tone was darker, he appeared gaunt, and his lips were cracked, Jiang’s sister told Jin. He requested that his sister pick him on his release date and bring him to their ancestral home in Henan’s Luoshan county.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅山／罗山 (zh) (Luóshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luoshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1806, column 2