Yunyang
See also: Yün-yang
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
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From Mandarin 鄖陽 / 郧阳 (Yúnyáng).
Proper noun
[edit]Yunyang
- A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- [1995, Roger R. Thompson, “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200:
- Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.]
- 2020 July 27, Tariq Malik, “China launches 3 satellites into orbit, including a 'lobster-eye' to hunt dark matter”, in Space.com[2], archived from the original on July 28, 2020, Space Exploration[3]:
- Video of the launch showed debris raining from the rocket during liftoff, but the event (in which insulation tiles fall from the booster) is normal occurrence. Social media images also showed some debris from the rocket that had fallen in the Yunyang district of Shiyan city, Hubei, according to space reporter Andrew Jones.
Translations
[edit]district in central China
Etymology 2
[edit]From Mandarin 雲陽 / 云阳 (Yúnyáng).
Proper noun
[edit]Yunyang
- A county of Chongqing, China.
- 1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China[4], volume II, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 120:
- Styan's Pucrasia occurs in the vicinity of the Yangtsze River from near Kui Chou in Hupeh, westward (at least) as far as Yunyang Hsien, in eastern Szechuan.[...]Near Yunyang Hsien I saw several others in more open rocky ground.
- 1975 March 27, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East[5], →OCLC, page 16:
- SZECHWAN The 17th March 'Szechwan Daily' published a report and editorial note about how cadres of (Shachu) commune in Yunyang County had persisted in participation in manual labour so as to "restrict bourgeois rights and […]
- 1999 March 18, Erik Eckholm, “Rare Expose in China Warns Of Unrest Over Dam Project”, in The New York Times[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World[7]:
- The journal article features a detailed case study of Yunyang County, near Chongqing, where 120,000 of an impoverished population of 1.24 million must be moved.
To fight erosion and flooding, the Government has declared that steep slopes should not be cultivated. But in Yunyang County, the article notes, nearly half the existing farms are on illegally steep slopes, and every patch of decent farmland is already in use.
- 2001 January 7, John Pomfret, “China's Giant Dam Faces Huge Problems”, in The Washington Post[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 November 2023[9]:
- Good Communist that he is, Yan followed instructions. He and hundreds of other local leaders returned home after similar expeditions and convinced their followers that the Chinese government was offering them a square deal. Move away from their homes in Yunyang county along the Yangtze to make way for the project, the word went out, and life could actually improve.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[10], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3541, column 2