Tongxin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 同心 (Tóngxīn).
Proper noun
[edit]Tongxin
- A county of Wuzhong, Ningxia, China.
- [1979 February, Yu-huai Ma, “Twenty Years of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region”, in China Reconstructs[2], volume XXVIII, number 2, Peking, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:
- In Tunghsin and Haiyuan counties north of the Liupan Mountains the Red Army helped the Hui people set up the Yuhai Hui Autonomous Government in August 1936, the first self-governing Hui power in Chinese history.]
- 1996 May 14, Richard Tomlinson, “Poverty Meets Consumerism in Inland China”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022, World[5]:
- At the bottom of Ningxia's economic ladder are peasants like Ma Junyi, 65, who lives in a cave he burrowed out of a hillside in Tongxin county, 120 miles south of Yinchuan. The average annual per capita income for Tongxin's farmers is $50, which puts Mr. Ma and his neighbors in the village of Wudaoling above the government's official poverty line.
- 2019 September 26, Emily Feng, “'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown”, in NPR[6], archived from the original on 26 September 2019:
- In August 2018, in Ningxia's Tongxin county, authorities attempted to demolish the Weizhou Grand Mosque, claiming it lacked the right building permits. […]
In Ningxia's Tongxin county, a rare female-only Islamic school once renowned across China's north-central and west is being readied for demolition after it was shut down last year to make way for residential development.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tongxin.