Wuyuan
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Etymology
Proper noun
Wuyuan
- A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
- 1937, W. L. Bales, Tso Tsungt'ang, Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OCLC, page 123:
- Tso left 1,000 men to garrison Kingtechen and on July 9th, 1861, established himself with the rest of his army in Wuyuan, a town covering an important approach to Kiangsi. He stayed in Wuyuan until November.
- , Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:
- Since the end of the T’ang dynasty, Chu Hsi’s ancestors had been settled in Kuan village of Wu-yüan county, then the southernmost county in She prefecture, Chiang-nan East circuit (currently the northeast corner of Kiangsi province).]
- , Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
- While Chu Hsi’s fame in the Southern Sung academy movement rests on his revival of White Deer Grotto in Chiang-hsi, he was most active in founding academies in his adoptive home, Fu-chien. His ancestral home was Wu-yuan County (Hui, Chiang-tung), but he was born, educated, and spent much of his career both in and out of office in Fu-chien.]
- 2015 February 13, Engen Tham, Pete Sweeney, Dominique Patton, “China's lending push bypasses cash-starved farm sector”, in Will Waterman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 August 2022, Economic News:
- Farmers form a Chinese national flag with red peppers, unhusked rice and kidney beans in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province September 27, 2014.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuyuan.
Translations
county in eastern China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
- Wuyuan, Wu-yuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.