Yanggao
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽高／阳高.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yanggao
- A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
- , Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page :
- At the time of writing this introduction, he had just concluded a trip to Shanxi where he studied an anthropological site at Xujiayao, Yangkao County.]
- 1990, Jia Lanpo, Huang Weiwen, The Story of Peking Man: From Archaeology to Mystery, Foreign Languages Press; Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
- During a conversation in the hotel where they were staying, Wei Qi related that at a village named Xujiayao (Hsu Chia Yao) in Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, the villagers had dug up thousands of kilogrammes of dragon bones and had delivered them to the local trading co-op for sale.
- 1999 June 10, Mia Turner, “The Vanishing Fortress Villages of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2023, Style:
- Like Baopingbao, Zhenbianbao is also a fortressed village, but its reserves of water have helped it to survive intact. About 1,000 people still live within its thick 20-meter-high yellow mud walls. Yu You is among the oldest residents; she's 82. She came to the village when she was 17. Like Tian she is from Inner Mongolia and married a farmer named Han living in Zhenbianbao, in Yanggao County, a two-hour drive on mostly dirt roads from Baopingbao.
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References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yangkao”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2115, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yanggao”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 1