Yichang
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜昌 (Yíchāng).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yichang
- A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
- [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177:
- To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han.]
- 1974 September, Huo Pai-lin, “Huang Sheng-hsiao, Longshoreman and Poet”, in China Reconstructs[3], volume XXIII, number 9, →OCLC, pages 40–41:
- HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port.
[...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union.
[...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated.
[...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang.
[...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.
- 2019 July 8, Didi Tang, “Fears rise over safety of China’s Three Gorges dam”, in The Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2021:
- Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages.
However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared.
- 2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-21[6]:
- Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges".
Translations
[edit]a prefecture-level city in central China
References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Ichang or I-ch’ang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 823, column 1
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3527, column 3