Meaning of Shannan | Babel Free

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A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on the border with Bhutan.

Examples

“People in Sangjih County in Shannan Prefecture are now working to complete in the shortest possible time a 30 km canal across 10 hills, 13 gullies and seven cliffs.”

“I brought a transistor radio on 31 March this year at the Chiaotien shop in Shanghai. In April I asked a friend to take it to my sister who lived in Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, so that she could listen to broadcasts from Peking.”

“Tsetong, the capital of Shannan prefecture, has merged with Nêdong into a sprawl of Tibetan and Chinese buildings.”

“The second generation of Tibetan cadres arose, also in surrounding provinces, during the march of the People’s liberation Army into Tibet itself in the early 1950s. In social origin and motivation they were much like the first group, though in numbers much greater. Among them I met and interviewed Lobsang Tsechen, originally a carpenter, who in the 1960s became a vice-chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; Zhen Ying, of peasant origin, who became the vice-Party secretary of Xigatse prefecture; Dorje Ben, a former “masterless man” (which unfortunately meant he could be mistreated by any superior without the protection of his “owner”) who became vice-head of the Lokha (Shan Nan) prefecture; and an industrial administrator, Shirob Watsa, assistant director of the important Auto Vehicle Repair Works of the Tibet Autonomous Region, who as a young man had had his knees shattered by order of his serf owner (after the democratic reform in Tibet they had been surgically repaired so that he could walk, but still with a bad limp).”

“June 19-21: Tibet; flame travels to Shannan Diqu and Lhasa.”

“Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported.”

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