Meaning of Ninghsia | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of Ningxia.

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“Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593).”

“THERE is only one way in which open⟳ competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present⟳ branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.”

“Wall posters written by anti-Communist organizations formed by Moslem people in the North China mainland province of Ninghsia cropped up one after the other in early last⟳ April, accusing the Chinese Communists of persecuting the Moslem people and calling on the people to join⟳ guerrilla forces in the mountains, according to intelligence reports from the area.[...] According to residents of Yinchuan City, capital of Ninghsia, some 1,000 educated Moslem youths have⟳ gone up the Yun Wu Mountains and are ready to sabotage Communist farm facilities at any time.”

“The Hui now number⟳ about three and half million and live⟳ mostly in the Ninghsia autonomous area and in smaller autonomous areas in Kansu, Sinkiang, and several of the southern provinces.”

“"Oh, I trekked through Burma and across the Gobi, photographed some camel races for National Geographic. I lived for a year in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, but it started to get⟳ too touristy. I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk."”

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