Xichang
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Chinese 西昌 (Xīchāng, “Western Prosperity”).
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Xichang
- A county-level city in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- , Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 290:
- Chao-erh-feng planned some fundamental measures to control the Lolo, including the construction of a through road between Lei-po and Hsi-ch'ang. Up to the present this has not been accomplished, however. The Hsi-ch'ang sector was finished as far as Chao-chio city and beyond to Yeh-lu-na-ta.]
- , volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 2:
- After a five-day rest at Huili, the Red Army continued its drive northward. Passing through the Yi nationality area of Tehchang, Hsichang the vanguard troops led by Liu Po-cheng made an alliance with the chieftains of the Kuchi tribe, and managed to neutralize the Laowu tribe.]
- 1987 December 20, Ross Terrill, “A World Away From Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2009, Travel:
- A city of flowers and pagodas, Xichang is the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, which contains 3.3 million people, 1.37 million of them Yi.
- 2020 April 1, “World Digest: April 1, 2020”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-04-04, National:
- A top official in the city of Xichang in Sichuan province was quoted as saying by the Xinhua News Agency that the area had gone 20 consecutive days without rain, with temperatures of 88 Fahrenheit on Monday and winds blowing at 65 feet per second.
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 1
- Xichang, Hsi-ch'ang, Hsi-chang, Hsichang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.