Pishan

English

Etymology 1

Map including (P’I-SHAN) PISHAN (DMA, 1984)

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 皮山 (Píshān).

Alternative forms

• P'i-shan (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Pishan

1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1972 December 13, “Basins of China”, in East/West [東西報]‎^[1], volume 6, number 49, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 3:

     In Pishan county, located between the Taklamakan desert to the north and the gobi to the south, in eight years the people have built 229 kilometers of irrigation canals in order to utilize the melting snow of the Kunlun Mountains for irrigation.

   • 2011 December 28, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “Suspected kidnappers killed in China's restive west”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 1 December 2017, WORLD NEWS‎^[3]:

     The kidnappers took two people hostage late on Wednesday in Pishan County in the far southern part of Xinjiang, close to the borders of India and Pakistan, said the region’s official news website (www.tianshannet.com).

   • 2015 February 17, Michael Forsythe, “Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 8 in Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia Reports”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Radio Free Asia reported that Friday’s attack took place in Guma County, known as Pishan in Chinese. A man who answered the telephone at the Pishan County Public Security Bureau said he had no information about the attack, and a man at the Pishan County People’s Hospital said, “We’re not allowed to answer your question, sorry.”

Synonyms

• (from Uyghur) Guma

Translations

county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮山 (zh) (Píshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pishan, P'i-shan, Pi-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pishan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2447, column 2

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pishan

1. Alternative form of Bishan
   • 1939 November 2, “Development Of Szechuan Coal Mining Described”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 25327, page 9, column 4:

     The mines at Hsiahiskow, Pishan county, have a combined production of 300 tons a day.

   • 1940, “Report of Work in China”, in The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1939‎^[7], New York, page 363:

     These considerations led recently to a decision to remove the Institute to Pishan county in Szechwan, where, as the Institute of Rural Research and Training, it plans to collaborate closely with the Mass Education Movement, and resume cooperation on a university basis with its member institutions.

   • 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^[8], →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."

Anagrams

• phasin