Yushu
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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 玉樹 / 玉树 (Yùshù).
Proper noun
Yushu
- A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
- 1975 April 4 [1975 April 4], “Tsinghai Province Makes Advances in Meteorological Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 66, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 5:
- Going among the masses, members of the meteorological station of Nangchien County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered 150 folk proverbs on weather changes and edited a meteorological chart of different seasons for agriculture and animal husbandry.
- 2013 May 29, “Tibetan nomad self-immolates and dies in Yushu”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on October 02, 2013:
- Tenzin Sherab (pictured) was the oldest of five siblings from a village in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumarleb/Qumalai), Yushu (Kyegu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham). According to exile Tibetan sources, his nomad family had been resettled to Chumarleb under the Chinese authorities’ policies of settlement, land confiscation, and fencing of pastoral areas inhabited by Tibetans, dramatically curtailing their livelihoods.
- A county-level city in Yushu, Qinghai, China.