The History of Zhongguancun: Building a Park and Establishing a Benchmark

The Zhongguancun area was formerly an old river way for the Yongding River, which was known to Beijing residents as “Zhong Wan er (or Middle Bay).” As early as the Ming Dynasty, the area’s picturesque scenery attracted palace eunuchs looking for the perfect burial grounds, thus becoming a sought-aft...

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Autores principales: Dong, Xiaoying, Hu, Yanni, Yin, Weidong, Kuo, Estela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121753/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2267-9_1
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description The Zhongguancun area was formerly an old river way for the Yongding River, which was known to Beijing residents as “Zhong Wan er (or Middle Bay).” As early as the Ming Dynasty, the area’s picturesque scenery attracted palace eunuchs looking for the perfect burial grounds, thus becoming a sought-after eunuch cemetery. As eunuchs were called “Zhong Guan er (or Chinese officials),” the modern-day innovation hub derived its name, dropping the ‘er’ and becoming “Zhong Guan Cun.”
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spelling pubmed-71217532020-04-06 The History of Zhongguancun: Building a Park and Establishing a Benchmark Dong, Xiaoying Hu, Yanni Yin, Weidong Kuo, Estela Zhongguancun Model: Driving the Dual Engines of Science & Technology and Capital Article The Zhongguancun area was formerly an old river way for the Yongding River, which was known to Beijing residents as “Zhong Wan er (or Middle Bay).” As early as the Ming Dynasty, the area’s picturesque scenery attracted palace eunuchs looking for the perfect burial grounds, thus becoming a sought-after eunuch cemetery. As eunuchs were called “Zhong Guan er (or Chinese officials),” the modern-day innovation hub derived its name, dropping the ‘er’ and becoming “Zhong Guan Cun.” 2018-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7121753/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2267-9_1 Text en © Peking University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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