Shangnan
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Shangnan
- A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
- 1923, Frits Holm, My Nestorian Adventure in China[1], Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 193–195:
- This action altered his behaviour for the time being, but in the evening he escaped again at the hsien-town of Shangnan.[...]At Shangnan the population was complaining of the same drought that had hindered us from getting a boat at Lungchüchai; and in the evening the villages fromed a long procession firing crackers and beating gongs, in order to induce the rain-joss to send some water.
- 2016 August 11, Jun Mai, “Chinese lawmaker seeks 130m yuan compensation from police for ‘illegal’ detention”, in South China Morning Post[2], archived from the original on 15 August 2016, Policies & Politics[3]:
- Hu Xufeng, 36, a member of the People’s Congress of Shangnan county, Shaanxi province, claimed the unusually high level of compensation because his detention caused “destructive damage” to his business, he told news portal Thepaper.cn.
- 2021 December 31, Cate Cadell, “China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-31, National Security[5]:
- A $43,000 system purchased by police in central China’s Shangnan county included a “foreign sensitive information” collection system that requested Uyghur and Tibetan staff translators, according to the contracts.