Jingbian

• (from Wade–Giles) Ching-pien

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靖邊／靖边 (Jìngbiān).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.bi.æn/, /-bi.ɛn/

Jingbian

1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2005 July 18, Howard W. French, “Whose Oil Is It? Property Rights at Issue in China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, World‎:

     JINGBIAN, China - As a truck driver hauling crude from private wells sprouting up all over this arid countryside, Gao had a bird's-eye view of the oil boom that was sweeping this county in the 1990's. […]
     The total investment was $84,000, a princely sum in northern Shaanxi Province, a hardscrabble moonscape of dusty, yellow-earth hills at the edge of the Gobi Desert. […]
     Mr. Zhu's wife said he was formally arrested on June 22, after weeks of detention in Jingbian, during which the authorities denied holding him.

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