Yangpu

See also: Yángpǔ

English

Yangpu District in Shanghai

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Yang-p'u, Yangpoo

Etymology

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 楊浦／杨浦 (Yángpǔ, literally “Poplar Bank”), a 1950 clipping of earlier 楊樹浦 (Yángshùpǔ, literally “Poplar Tree Bank”), after the name of a creek that formerly ran through the area beside present-day Lanzhou Rd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑŋpu/, /jæŋpu/

Proper noun

Yangpu

1. A district of Shanghai, China.
   • 1966 April 7, Robert Guillain, “Shanghai's Repentant Capitalists”, in The Reporter‎^[1], volume 34, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:

     Shanghai has built steelworks, chemical plants, and factories for machine tools. The one I visited in Yangpu, with 5,200 workers, manufactures about forty different types of machines; the factory is proudest of its grinding machines, some of which attain very great precision.

   • 1973, Victor Nee, “Revolution and Bureaucracy: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution”, in China's Uninterrupted Revolution: From 1840 to the Present‎^[2], 1st edition, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 365:

     The actual turnover of leading cadres in district committees was not as sweeping as it was at the highest level of municipal government. For example, Chang Ching-piao, the First Secretary of the Yangpu District Party Committee, after undergoing mass criticism and reform became the chairman of the Yangpu District Revolutionary Committee.

   • 2014 May 1, Casey Hall, “In Shanghai, a Warehouse Becomes a Home”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-29, Great Homes & Destinations‎^[4]:

     Now they, along with their 20-month-old daughter, Anna, rent a warehouse in the Wu Wei Creative Park, a government-owned space in the northern district of Yangpu.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangpu.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) Yangshupu, Yangtzepoo, Yangtszepoo

Translations

District of Shanghai, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楊浦／杨浦 (Yángpǔ)