Wenshanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (from Wade–Giles) Wen-shan
• (from Tongyong Pinyin, Taiwan) Wunshan

語源

From Mandarin 文山 (Wénshān).

固有名詞

Wenshan

1. A Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
   • 1983, Nicholas R. Lardy, “Living standards and the distribution of income”, in Agriculture in China's modern economic development‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185:

     Most of the chronically poor counties in Yunnan Province in the late 1970s tended to specialize in nongrain crops in the late 1950s. That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho, in tropical southeastern Yunnan.

   • 2021 April 30, Tom Daly, “China graft watchdog probes governor of emerging aluminium hub”, in Richard Chang, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 06 July 2023, ALUMINUM:

     The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation.
     Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of discipline and the law,” the Yunnan Province Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, without elaborating.

2. A county-level city in Wenshan, Yunnan, China.
   • 1952 June, Kai-yu Hsu, “Behind Red China's Human Sea Tactics”, in United States Army Combat Forces Journal‎^[3], volume 2, number 11, →OCLC, page 16:

     In April of 1944, an American colonel conferred with Nationalist Chinese General Kwan Lin-jen in Wenshan, southern Yunnan Province, on the defense of that region against the Japanese in Indochina. The colonel was helping the general train his troops.

   • 2008 July 16, Lucy Hornby, “China worker stabs 10 after fake money switch”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 09 August 2022, World News:

     “The suspect turned to a local police station for help, but was too furious to wait for an investigation,” Xinhua news agency said, citing police in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. […]
     He killed one passer-by and injured another nine, none critically, on Monday morning at the Shuangqiao Garden Plaza in Wenshan county, before being seized by police.

3. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 1974, Tse-Hwei Shen, A Communication Strategy for Increasing Population Awareness Among School-age Children in Taiwan‎^[5], →OCLC, page 48:

     Fact: An outbreak of tea inchworm resulted in tremendous loss to the tea farmers in Wenshan area near Taipei. Entomologists were called upon to reduce the population, but before any action was taken, the worms died in one month.

   • 2017 October 24, “How fireflies were brought back from the brink in urban Taipei”, in South China Morning Post‎^[6], archived from the original on 2017-10-24, Society‎^[7]:

     Over the past four years, Taipei has spent NT$50 million (about US$1.6 million) on the project, which has established sustainable firefly populations in the Wenshan, Daan and Chungshan districts of the city. […]
     Learning from Kitakyushu’s success, environmentalists used similar methods to restore the firefly population in Taipei, beginning in 2012 with one small project in Wenshan, then moving to other districts once their methods were perfected.

   • 2018 November 24, Chris Horton, “Taiwan’s President Quits as Party Chief After Stinging Losses in Local Races”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-11-24, Asia Pacific‎^[9]:

     Speaking at an election result viewing party in Taipei’s Wenshan district, a Kuomintang volunteer, Lin Mei-chuan, said she disapproved of the Tsai administration’s handling of the economy, as well as cross-strait ties.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wenshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3436, column 1
• Wenshan, Wen-shan at Google Ngram Viewer