Hsining

See also: Hsi-ning

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 西寧／西宁 (Xīníng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-ning².

Proper noun

Hsining

1. Alternative form of Xining
   • 1980 July 27, L. Chen, “Test trials for grand finales?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XXI, number 29, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     Meanwhile, Peiping has started meting out punishment to local-level members of the Cultural Revolution faction.
     The first such provincial leader is Ma Chi-wen, vice chairman of the Tsinghai Provincial Revolutionary Committee, who received a seven-year sentence at a trial attended by some 7,000 people in Hsining, the provincial capital, according to an announcement June 28.

   • 1994, C. T. Hsia, “Foreward”, in Red in Tooth and Claw‎^[2], New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xix:

     We have all seen on television or read about the massacre of students at Tiananmen Square, but who would have thought that the Communist authorities in Hsining, the capital of Chinghai, would, from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon, machine-gun an unceasing parade of protesters against the government, leaving seven to eight thousand dead and ten thousand wounded, and arresting the remaining twenty or thirty thousand?

   • 1997, Philip Caraman, “Johannes Grueber and Albert d'Orville”, in Tibet: The Jesuit Century‎^[3], St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

     Instead of taking the Silk Road from here, they decided instead to travel to Hsining (Si-ning), the capital of Tsinghai Province, which for centuries had traded with Tibet in wool, hides, salt, and timber. […]
     Continuing their journey, the two priests reached Hsining (Si-ning) at the end of June after more than four weeks on the road.

Translations

Xining — see Xining

Further reading

• “Hsining, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• shining