Shaoshan

See also: Shao-shan

English

Alternative forms

• Shao-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 韶山 (Sháoshān).

Proper noun

Shaoshan

1. A county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
   • 1954 April 14, Carolyn Wells, “Internationally Speaking...”, in The Agnes Scott News‎^[1], volume XXXIX, number 15, Decatur, GA: Agnes Scott College, page 1:

     Mao Tse-tung, for example, leader of Communist China, was born in Shaoshan, province of Hunan, the son of a well-to-do farmer.

   • 2010 June 25, “A Mao Trinket Must Look Like Mao, Not Elvis”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-30, Week in Review‎^[3]:

     Trade in Mao memorabilia is big business in the Chinese city of Shaoshan, birthplace of the Great Helmsman.

   • 2013 December 27, “120th anniversary sees tourists flood birthplace of father of modern China”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 28 December 2013‎^[5]:

     Prosperity has certainly come to Shaoshan, located in the south-central Hunan province. The town has a massive “red tourism” industry, with a museum, a library, a cultural centre and soon a theatre, all dedicated to Mao.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韶山 (zh) (Sháoshān)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Shaoshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2886, column 2
• Shaoshan, Shao-shan at Google Ngram Viewer