Yushe

See also: yùshè and Yúshè

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 榆社 (Yúshè).

Proper noun

Yushe

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
   • [1924 May, “China Notes for February: Liao Chou”, in The Missionary Visitor‎^[1], volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:

     The Yü Shê County official is being entertained in our hospital at the present time. He had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse and broke his arm at the elbow. He has taken considerable interest in reading the Bible and other Christian literature. Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.]

   • 1975, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement‎^[2], →OCLC, page 12:

     Shansi […] Over the past 3 years, Yushe County has delivered 2,100,000 catties of medicinal herbs to the State. In the first 10 months of 1974, the county produced 600,000 catties of medicinal herbs, thus overfulfilling the annual procurement […]

   • 1987 December, “Year in Review”, in Rotunda‎^[3], volume 12, number 11, New York: Waldon Press, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

     Deep canyons in a highly dissected plateau in Yushe County, Shanxi Province, China, expose the fossil-bearing deposits investigated by the American Museum and Chinese team.

   • 1995 October 25 [1995 August 26], Hu Fuguo, “Set Strict Demands, Do Solid Work, and Greet the Seventh Provincial Party Congress With Significant Achievements”, in FBIS, transl., Daily Report: China, number 95-206, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan SHANXI RIBAO (山西日报) 27 August 1995 pp 1, 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, North Region, page 79, columns 1–2:

     Sending working teams to rectify backward party branches, and sending cadres to hold posts in rural areas, are also effective methods that should be continuously carried out after being summarized and perfected. At the same time, we should make great efforts to explore new methods. For example, Yushe County adopted the method of making rich villages merge with poor and smaller villages to improve backward party branches; this is a good method that suits the actual needs of poor mountain areas.

   • 2013, Qiu Zhan-Xiang, Richard H. Tedford, “History and Scientific Exploration”, in Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals‎^[4], →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:

     It is a pity that no formal record of the first mammalian fossils obtained by Andersson's collectors from Yushe County can be found. Andersson did not pay much attention to the localities that yielded only poor fossils during his early exploration.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榆社 (zh) (Yúshè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yushe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3542, column 2

Anagrams

• Hueys, Shuey, hueys