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Liangxi District
Liangxi District () is one of five urban districts and the main district of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China. It was created in 2015 by the merger of the three former districts of Chong'an District, Nanchang District, and Beitang District. The primary Dialect is the Wuxi dialect. Administrative divisions The zoning code for Liangxi District is 320213. The district was established in 2015 with the merger of Chong'an, Nanchang and Beitang District. In the present, Liangxi District has 17 subdistricts. Its administrative office is at 688 Jiefang South Road. The district mayor is Qin Yongxin (秦咏薪) The current Communist Party Secretary for the District is Ju Xie (徐劼). Chong'an Temple Sub-district - The Chong'an Temple Subdistrict is the subdistrict containing the famous temple grounds and is flanked by Tongjiang Street to the Northeast, Beidajie Street to the Northwest and Nanchan Temple Street to the South. The area covers 2.21 square kilometers and has a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District (China)
The term ''district'', in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. In the modern context, district (), formally city-governed district, city-controlled district, or municipal district (), are subdivisions of a municipality or a prefecture-level city. The rank of a district derives from the rank of its city. Districts of a municipality are prefecture-level; districts of a sub-provincial city are sub-prefecture-level; and districts of a prefecture-level city are county-level. The term was also formerly used to refer to obsolete county-controlled districts (also known as district public office). However, if the word ''district'' is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then it is a translation for ''xian'', another type of administrative division in China. Before the 1980s, cities in China were administrative divisions containing mostly urban, built-up areas, with very little farmlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donglin Academy
The Donglin Academy (, Wade–Giles ''Tung-lin''), also known as the Guishan Academy (龜山書院 ''Guīshān Shūyuàn''), was a former Chinese educational institution in Wuxi, China. It was originally built in 1111 during the Northern Song dynasty; the neo-Confucian scholar Yang Shi () taught there, but the academy later fell into disuse and disrepair. The name "Donglin" was inspired by the Donglin Temple at the base of Mount Lu, Jiangxi. Yang Shi visited the Donglin Temple and felt that it was a good place for teaching. When he finished his scholarship, he travelled to Wuxi and saw that the layout of the academy was similar to the Donglin Temple, so he taught at that site for 18 years. The academy was thus called "Donglin Academy". History In 1604, during the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, Gu Xiancheng (1550–1612), a Grand Secretary, along with the scholars Gao Panlong (高攀龍; 1562–1626), Qian Yiben (), An Xifan (; 1564–1621) and Yu Kongjian () restored the Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |