Meaning of Nanyang | Babel Free

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1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
2. Synonym of Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

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“In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy.”

“Other villagers expressed a mix of resignation and worry. Residents in Nanyang, a city of 1.5 million about 20 miles to the south, have also voiced alarm on the Internet and called for the project to be scuttled. “Here and around Nanyang, there’s opposition, but that’s futile,” said Li Chaoyong, 50, who builds and repairs homes around Hubin. “But if there are problems again like in Japan ...” His voice trailed off, and he shook his head.”

“China Southern Airlines has been testing the use of facial recognition technology in the city of Nanyang.”

“Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.”

“In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.”

“Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed. Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.”

“I was the second of five sisters in an expatriate Chinese family in the Philippines, in the Nanyang or Southeast Asia, where throughout history Chinese were an underdog minority living a precarious, rollercoaster kind of existence.”

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