Meaning of Shannan | Babel Free

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

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“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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