Yesanguan
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 野三關 / 野三关 (Yěsānguān).
Proper noun
[edit]Yesanguan
- A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
- 2009 June 16, Michael Wines, “Civic-Minded Chinese Find a Voice Online”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-01-29, Asia Pacific[2]:
- Under public pressure, Hubei officials freed her on bail. Mr. Wu helped recruit a prominent Beijing law firm to represent Ms. Deng.
On May 22, Beijing censors ordered Web sites to stop reporting on the case. Four days later, television and the Internet were cut off in Yesanguan, the town where the attack occurred.
- 2013, Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch, China Highway and Transportation Society, editor, Innovation-Oriented Contemporary Chinese Bridges[4], Paths International, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:
- The Sidu River Bridge is located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, and formulates an essential link in the Yichang — Enshi section of Shanghai — Chengdu National Highway. Its main structure is a truss girder suspension bridge 900m in main span length (Fig. 1).
- 2016 May 17, Sophie Williams, “Now THAT'S a high-way! Spectacular aerial images show China's impressive mountain overpass built over a 1,630ft valley”, in Daily Mail MailOnline[5], archived from the original on 18 May 2016:
- The suspension bridge is situated in the remote Yesanguan Town of Badong County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, over Sidu River.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yesanguan.
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