Xichuan

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān).

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Xichuan

  1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • , New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as “China in Chains”, in The Truth About Communism‎, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
      Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down.]
  • 2009 February 27, Chris Buckley, “China farmers recall bitter days of famine for dam”, in Megan Goldin, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 23 December 2023, ワールド‎:
    "Owing to poor living adjustment, as well as the climate and poor acclimatization, not only is the spread of epidemics extremely serious, the death rate is about 30 percent," stated one 1961 government report from Xichuan County, Henan, which sent the dam migrants to Qinghai.

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