Chengdong

From Mandarin 城東 / 城东 (Chéngdōng).

• enPR: chǔngʹdo͝ongʹ
• Rhymes: -ʊŋ

Chengdong

1. A district of Xining, Qinghai, China.
   • 1985 April 2 [1985 February 27], “Qinghai's Shao Haifeng Calls on People of Hui Nationality”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, number 85-032, sourced from Xining Qinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106:

     According to QINGHAI RIBAO, on the second day of the lunar new year, Zhao Haifeng, secretary of the provincial CPC Committee, (Zhang Jifu), deputy mayor of Xining, and other leading comrades went to a new residential area in (Linjiaya), (Yuanshan) in (Chengdong) District, Xining City, to call on those people of Hui Nationality who were previously transferred to the rural areas and have now been approved to live in the city.

   • 2022, David R. Stroup, “"God is a Drug": Ethnic Politics in the Xi Jinping Era”, in Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims‎^[1], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:

     Though the walls have since been razed, the boundaries they once demarcated remain salient as Xining's contemporary street grid follows the path where they once stood. Most residents still recognize the city's Chengdong District, which sits on top of the former Muslim city, as the Hui Quarter.