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Bobai
Bobai (; Zhuang: ') is a county of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of Yulin city. Bobai was the home town of the linguist Wang Li, who described the Bobai dialect with its unusually large number of tones. Transportation The county is served by the Yulin–Tieshangang railway. The railway opened for freight service in May 2015. Passenger service to Bobai railway station started on April 1, 2016. Contestation and protests In May 2007, Bobai was the site of large protests held by local people against China's one-child policy, and triggered the protest in Yangmei, Rongxian. The small office of a grassroots NGO for sex workers' rights was ransacked and its leader Ye Haiyan Ye Haiyan (born 1975) is a Chinese gender activist, best known for her action in favor of women, prostitutes, and children A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental per ... was also attacked. Climate Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobai Dialect
Bobai is a Yue Chinese dialect spoken in Bobai County, Guangxi. It was documented by the Chinese linguist Wang Li, a native speaker, and is well known for its tone system. Tone Bobai dialect is widely cited as having the most tones of any variety of Chinese, though in fact it only has six, the same as most Yue dialects. The reason for the claim is that Bobai makes a four-way tonal distinction in checked syllables, whereas most other Yue dialects have three: In Bobai, both the lower and upper entering tone is split (8a and 8b as well as 7a and 7b), whereas in Cantonese only 7 is split; other dialects with an 8 split are neighboring Yangjiang and Pinghua Pinghua (; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Pìhng Wá''; sometimes disambiguated as /) is a pair of Sinitic languages spoken mainly in parts of the Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with some speakers in Hunan province. Pinghua ..., though in the latter at least 7 is not split, and 8 split along different l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Li (linguist)
Wang Li (; ; 10 August 1900 – 3 May 1986), courtesy name Wang Liaoyi () and birth name Wang Xiangying (), was a Chinese linguist, educator, translator and poet, described as "the founder of Chinese Linguistics". His work expands a wide range in Chinese linguistics, including phonology, grammar and lexicography, historical linguistics and dialectal studies. He was also the founder of the first Chinese Linguistics Department at Tsinghua University. He brought the western modern linguistic methodologies back to China and strove for the modernization and reformation of Chinese grammar throughout his whole life. His most famous books include ''Zhongguo Yinyunxue'' 中国音韵学 (Chinese Phonology), ''Zhongguo Wenfa Chutan'' 中国文法初探 (An Exploratory Study of Chinese Grammar), and ''Wang Li Guhanyu Zidian'' 王力古汉语字典 (Wang Li's Character Dictionary of Ancient Chinese). Early life Early Education Wang Li was born to a poor family in Bobai County, Guangxi, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobai Railway Station
Bobai railway station () is a railway station located in Bobai County, Yulin, Guangxi, China. It is an intermediate station on the Yulin–Tieshangang railway The Yulin–Tieshangang railway (Simplified Chinese: 玉铁铁路) is a single-track electrified railway in China. The combined passenger and freight line is long and has a design speed of . History Construction began in September 2010. Tracklay ... but is the terminus for passenger service. There is one service per day to and from Nanning railway station. History Freight service began on 1 May 2015. Passenger service began on 1 April 2016. References Railway stations in Guangxi Railway stations in China opened in 2015 {{Guangxi-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulin–Tieshangang Railway
The Yulin–Tieshangang railway (Simplified Chinese: 玉铁铁路) is a single-track electrified railway in China. The combined passenger and freight line is long and has a design speed of . History Construction began in September 2010. Tracklaying began on 20 September 2012. It began operation on 6 May 2015. On 1 April 2016, a passenger service was introduced between Yulin railway station and Bobai railway station. References Railway lines in China Railway lines opened in 2015 {{PRChina-rail-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yulin, Guangxi
Yulin (, ), alternately romanized as Watlam, is one of the fourteen prefecture-level cities of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Its Chinese name was changed in 1956 from the historical name "" (), which is homophonous in Standard Mandarin, but different in the local dialect of Yue Chinese; "" is while "" is . The former romanization follows the pronunciation of the historical name in Yue Chinese. Its built-up area is made of two urban districts, and Beiliu City was home to 2,438,467 inhabitants as of 2020 census. Geography and climate Yulin is located in southeastern Guangxi province along the border with Guangdong. It is a hilly basin with a total area of . Yulin's climate is subtropical and monsoonal. Average annual temperatures is 22.9 °C. Yearly precipitation is 1,577 mm. History Artifacts suggest that the area was settled before the Qin dynasty but a commandery by the name of Yulin was not established until early Han dyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yangmei, Rong County
Yangmei () is a town located in Rong County, Yulin, Guangxi, China. It is named after the fruit ''yangmei'' (''Myrica rubra''). The town's population is approximately 5,3000. In May 2007, Affected by the protest of Bobai, Yangmei was the site of large protests held by local people against China's one-child policy The term one-child policy () refers to a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. That initiative was part of a much bro .... References Towns of Guangxi Rong County, Guangxi {{Guangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin. Formerly a province, Guangxi became an autonomous region in 1958. Its current capital is Nanning. Guangxi's location, in mountainous terrain in the far south of China, has placed it on the frontier of Chinese civilization throughout much of Chinese history. The current name "Guang" means "expanse" and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in 226 AD. It was given provincial level status during the Yuan dynasty, but even into the 20th century, it was considered an open, wild territory. The abbreviation of the region is "" (Hanyu pinyin: ; Zhuang: ), which comes from the name of the city of Guilin, the provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye Haiyan
Ye Haiyan (born 1975) is a Chinese gender activist, best known for her action in favor of women, prostitutes, and children A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger ... against violence and sexual aggression. In May of 2012, her NGO office in Guangxi was raided by eight plainclothes men who also reportedly attacked her. Haiyan said after the attack that she presumed the men had been sent by the local government. On 27 May 2013, she campaigned against a school director in Hainan accused of raping six female students, aged 12 to 13. She held a sign that read: "Principal, call me if you want to get a room. Leave the pupils alone." This helped to raise bring attention to this specific case, sparking national outrage via the Internet. Artist Ai Weiwei and filmmaker Ai Xiaoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rong County, Guangxi
Rongxian (; also called Rong Xian or Rong County) is a county in the southeast of Guangxi, China, bordering Guangdong province to the southeast. It occupies the northeast corner of the prefecture-level city of Yulin. Its population is approximately 700,000. Duqiao Mountain (), located in Rongxian, is a famous Taoist sanctuary.http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2002/e20029/rongxian.htm Other tourist sites include the Zhenwu Pavilion (). Transport * Luoyang–Zhanjiang Railway Climate See also * Yangmei, Rong County Yangmei () is a town located in Rong County, Yulin, Guangxi, China. It is named after the fruit ''yangmei'' (''Myrica rubra''). The town's population is approximately 5,3000. In May 2007, Affected by the protest of Bobai, Yangmei was the sit ... * Ramadan ibn Alauddin, a Muslim from Korea who governed Rong County in the 1340s References External linksRongxian Government website Counties of Guangxi Yulin, Guangxi {{Guangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One-child Policy
The term one-child policy () refers to a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1980 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. That initiative was part of a much broader effort to control population growth that began in 1970 and ended in 2021, a half century program that included minimum ages at marriage and childbearing, two-child limits for many couples, minimum time intervals between births, heavy surveillance, and stiff fines for non-compliance. The program had wide-ranging social, cultural, economic, and demographic effects, although the contribution of one-child restrictions to the broader program has been the subject of controversy. China's family planning policies began to be shaped by fears of overpopulation in the 1970s, and officials raised the age of marriage and called for fewer and more broadly spaced births. Overpopulation, in the eyes of the state officials, would hinder their agenda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postal Code Of China
Postal codes in the People's Republic of China () are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China. China Post uses a six-digit all-numerical system with four tiers: the first tier, composed of the first two digits, show the province, province-equivalent municipality, or autonomous region; the second tier, composed of the third digit, shows the postal zone within the province, municipality or autonomous region; the fourth digit serves as the third tier, which shows the postal office within prefectures or prefecture-level cities; the last two digits are the fourth tier, which indicates the specific mailing area for delivery. The range 000000–009999 was originally marked for Taiwan (The Republic of China) but is not used because it not under the control of the People's Republic of China. Mail to ROC is treated as international mail, and uses postal codes set forth by Chunghwa Post. Codes starting from 999 are the internal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
