Ninghsia

English

Proper noun

Ninghsia

1. Alternative spelling of Ningxia
   • [1914, Li Ung Bing, “The Ming Dynasty (Continued)”, in Joseph Whiteside, editor, Outlines of Chinese History‎^[1], Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, page 251:

     Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593).]

   • 1928, Owen Lattimore, “The Danger Line in the Far East”, in North American Review‎^[2], volume 226, New York, page 492:

     THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.

   • 1978 June 4, “More anti-Red posters”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Wall posters written by anti-Communist organizations formed by Moslem people in the North China mainland province of Ninghsia cropped up one after the other in early last April, accusing the Chinese Communists of persecuting the Moslem people and calling on the people to join guerrilla forces in the mountains, according to intelligence reports from the area.[...]
     According to residents of Yinchuan City, capital of Ninghsia, some 1,000 educated Moslem youths have gone up the Yun Wu Mountains and are ready to sabotage Communist farm facilities at any time.

   • 1979, Murray L. Eiland, Chinese and Exotic Rugs‎^[4], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     The Hui now number about three and half million and live mostly in the Ninghsia autonomous area and in smaller autonomous areas in Kansu, Sinkiang, and several of the southern provinces.

   • 2010, Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168:

     "Oh, I trekked through Burma and across the Gobi, photographed some camel races for National Geographic. I lived for a year in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, but it started to get too touristy. I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk."

Translations

Ningxia — see Ningxia

Further reading

• “Ninghsia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• hainings