Wushan
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See also: Wu-shan
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Wushan
- A county of Chongqing, China.
- 1905 June 17, E. H. Wilson, “LEAVES FROM MY CHINESE NOTE-BOOK”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle, number 964, page 384:
- On the cliffs opposite Kui Spiræa Thunbergii occurs. It is quite common in the Wushan gorge, but I did not find it nearer Ichang than here.
- 1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Homo erectus”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:
- According to Gu and Fang (1991a), two human fossils were unearthed from this site situated in Wushan County in the eastern part of Sichuan Province in central China.
- 2008 August 2, Andrew Torchia, “Corrupt China official betrayed by leaky toilet”, in Andrew Roche, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Technology, Media and Telecommunications:
- Yan Dabin, a former director of transport for Wushan County near the southwestern city of Chongqing, was sentenced on Friday for taking bribes totaling 22.3 million yuan ($3.3 million) from road building companies, Xinhua said.
- A town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
- A village in Wushan, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China.
Translations
county in western China; town in western China; village in western China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wushan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wushan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3495, column 3
- Wushan, Wu-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.