Yijun
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜君 (Yíjūn).
Proper noun
[edit]Yijun
- A county of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
- [1969, What's Happening on the Chinese Mainland: (1969-1970)[1], volumes 1-2, Chung Hwa Information Service, →OCLC, page 15, column 1:
- […] agricultural Cooperative in Yichun County, Shensi, and this is a mountainous region, the yield per mou is 1,654 catties; at the Ningpo Agricultural Cooperative in Yuse County, Kwangsi, the average yield per mou is 1,600 catties.]
- [1970 October 14 [1970 October 13], “Yenan People Carry Forward Revolutionary Tradition”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, Sian, →OCLC, page H 9:
- Two small coal pits and an open-cut coal mine were opened in Yichun County this year.]
- 2001, Lucien Bianco, “The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
- Three early Republican incidents, all originating in Shaanxi province, exemplify much more aggressive moves. In the course of the first one (1913),[...]Sixteen months later in Yijun county, opium commissar Wang Jiechen and more than ten policemen escorting him were killed by one hundred bandits, who had been commissioned by local opium-growers to protect forbidden poppy plants in exchange for a share in the profits from opium sales. The bandits went on to occupy the county capital.
- 2020 June 17, Sui-Lee Wee, Amber Wang, Liu Yi, “China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Gear”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-17[4]:
- In Yijun County in Shaanxi Province, the police said they had collected more than 11,700 samples, or one quarter.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yijun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1