Yangshuo
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See also: Yángshuò
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 陽朔／阳朔 (Yángshuò).
Proper noun
Yangshuo
- A county of Guilin, Guangxi, China.
- 1958, Edwin George Beal, Jr., 釐金制度之起源 [The Origin of Likin, 1853-1864], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
- On December 10, 1851 the court issued a seemingly self-confident and boastful edict,¹¹ in which it stated that Yung-an was being surrounded by imperial troops under Saishanga, who had been stationed at Yangshuo 陽朔 ; it announced, with reference to the Taiping movement, that "this wriggling little band of wretches has now become as a wandering ghost at the bottom of a caldron; whenever the day is selected it can immediately be crushed with a single blow"; and it promised that ample funds for suppressing the Taipings would be forthcoming as long as they were needed.
- 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
- To sail downstream from Kweilin between the green hills that line the banks of the Likiang around Yangshuo is a never-to-be-forgotten experience. As another popular saying has it: “Even more beautiful than the scenery of Kweilin is that of Yangshuo.”
- , New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 153, 155:
- After breakfast the next day, Ho Li-chih came to invite Yang Shu-tien and me to the Li River for a boat trip to another county, Yang-shuo.[...]This was the county of Yang-shuo that we had come to see. The respective beauties of Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo have been debated by visitors over the centuries, some extolling one and some the other.]
- 2015 September 14, Edward Wong, “Bucolic River in Southern China Seeks a Place Among Busier Rivals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-16, Asia Pacific:
- Though Yangshuo County agencies did not respond to requests for interviews, the park proposal suggests a sense of rivalry with Guilin and the Li River. In it, officials note that while Guilin and the Li River were designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations last year, Yangshuo County was named as having the single best karst landscape by Chinese National Geographic magazine.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangshuo.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangshuo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 3