Wu-shan

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See also: Wushan

English

Map including Wu-shan (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 巫山 (Wūshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu¹-shan¹.

Proper noun

Wu-shan

  1. Alternative form of Wushan
    • 1899, E. H. Parker, Up the Yang-tse‎, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC, page 43:
      One side of the gully (ch'i) belongs to Pa-tung, the other to Wu-shan.
    • 1907, Research in China‎, volume 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:
      On reaching the Ta-ning-ho, a tributary of the Yang-tzï, we again took boats and ran the swift stream to Wu-shan.
    • 1981, Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China‎, Boston: Beacon Press, published 1988, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
      There weren't any passenger ships leaving Pa-tung, only a freighter going to Wu-shan, so we took that. When we arrived in Wu-shan, we happened upon an old wooden boat which carried cotton to Feng-chieh, so we took that.

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