Yulin

See also: yǔlín

English

Alternative forms

• Yü-lin (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: yüʹlǐnʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 玉林 (Yùlín).

Proper noun

Yulin

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
   • 2016 June 9, Shaojie Huang, “Animal Advocates Call for End to Dog Meat Festival in China”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-09‎^[3]:

     Thousands of dogs are slaughtered and served in restaurants in Yulin, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, for the festival, which is set to begin on June 21. Its proponents defend the practice as an expression of cultural heritage and argue that eating dogs is no different from eating cows or turkeys.

   • 2022 June 27, Liangping Gao, Ryan Woo, “Chinese city desperate for home buyers entices villagers with job prospects”, in Edmund Klamann, Mark Porter, editors, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 29 June 2022, Asian Markets‎^[5]:

     The Yulin city government hopes to sell 8,000 housing units to villagers this year, the paper said, pointing to the collapse in urban demand.
     But rural residents in the Guangxi autonomous region, which includes Yulin, on average earn only about 5,000 yuan ($748) a year, less than half of what urban residents make, official statistics show.

Alternative forms

• Watlam (Postal Romanization)

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangxi

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 玉林 (juk⁶ lam⁴)

  Mandarin: 玉林 (zh) (Yùlín)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 榆林 (Yúlín).

Proper noun

Yulin

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • 1827, George Timkowski, Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China in the Years 1820-1821‎^[6], volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 307:

     About twelve wersts and a half from Yulin, we arrived at the fort of Tcha tao, close to which there is an inn, where we found a great number of travellers assembled; some were preparing to proceed on their difficult road across the mountains, and others resting themselves after having accomplished this fatiguing journey.

   • [1960 September 19 [1960 April 18], Ku-hsien Chiang, The Green Yu-Lin of Shensi Province - Communist China.‎^[7], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 2:

     Under the threat of sandstorms, the town of Yu-Lin had been "on the move" three times in the past. If one climbs up the rampart in the northeastern corner of the old town, one can see remnants of the Great Wall, standing amidst the vast yellow sands.]

   • 2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze‎^[8], London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 190:

     The next morning I caught a taxi north of Yulin, where the Great Wall ran through the desert. Tourists rarely came to see the wall here, because it was unrestored and the northern Shaanxi roads were so bad.

   • 2016 August 22, Sue-Lin Wong, Beijing Newsroom, “Former China boom town learns hard lessons about service economy”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 1 December 2023, Business:

     At the section of the Great Wall of China that runs through Yulin, tour guide Gao Jing says she tried to learn English in expectation of the increased number of overseas visitors the city planned to attract as part of its economic transformation.
     But the international tourists haven't come to Yulin, once a coal, oil and natural gas boom town in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, and in their absence she has forgotten her English.

2. A bay of Sanya, Hainan, China.
   • 1971 July 7, “Peking Building New Sea Base?”, in The Salem News‎^[10], volume 83, number 160, Salem, Ohio, sourced from AP, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 1:

     U.S. cameras have photo­graphed construction of a ship berthing area, a jetty and more than 50 buildings, as well as dredging of a channel at Woody Island, one of the largest of the group.
     Chinese convoys are reported sailing frequently from the port of Yulin on Hainan Island's south coast to Woody Island, about 200 miles to the southeast.

   • 1980 December 7, “Yulin on Hainan”, in Free China Weekly‎^[11], volume XXI, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

     The United States once asked Communist China to permit US Seventh Fleet to dock at Shanghai, and Peiping considered the possibility of allowing the U.S. Navy to make use of port facilities at Yulin on Hainan Island, according to a top Chinese Communist official.

   • 2012 September 5, Keshav Prasad Bhattarai, “Rising India And China: Can Two Tigers Learn To Share A Mountain – Analysis”, in Eurasia Review‎^[12], archived from the original on 21 February 2013:

     Yulin base was originally developed to serve mainly as a conventional submarine facility, located on the eastern bank of the Yulin Bay. It is close to the Parcel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea disputed between China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.

3. A naval base in Sanya, Hainan, China.

Translations

prefecture-level city in Shaanxi

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 榆林 (jyu⁴ lam⁴)

  Mandarin: 榆林 (zh) (Yúlín)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yulin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[13], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3539, column 3