Sentence examples for xizang from inspiring English sources

(The Chinese name for Tibet, Xizang, translates as "Western treasurehouse").

The area is bounded on the east along the Huangpu by Zhongshan Dong Lu (East Zhongshan Road); on the west by Xizang Zhong Lu; and on the south by Yan'an Dong Lu, which was built on the former Yangjingbang Canal that separated the British from the French concessions.

Tibet, Tibetan Bod, in full Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese (Pinyin) Xizang Zizhiqu or (Wade-Giles romanization) Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-ch'ü, historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called "the roof of the world".

These come in varieties meant for competitive fighting (gambling is illegal in mainland China, but nobody tattles) and for keeping as pets, but probably not for sneaking through customs (405 Xizang Road; $1.45 to $14.50 per bug, but some fetch more than $1,000).

Course 3: Xizang qingke bing (3.5 renminbi) – It was here, watching a man pull hot round flatbread covered in sesame seeds from what looked like a tandoor oven, that the idea for a tasting menu was born.

I ducked down a narrow alleyway of preserved shikumen houses, little stone-arched dwellings that were once ubiquitous in Shanghai but have now largely been demolished, and into the South Xizang Road bird and flower market, the air a thick fug of cigarette smoke and animals.

A large shikumen district lies to the south of Huai Hai Dong Road and to the west of Xizang Nan Road.