Xichang
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English
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[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Chinese 西昌 (Xīchāng, “Western Prosperity”).
Proper noun
[edit]Xichang
- A county-level city in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China
- [1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China[2], 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.]
- [1978 February, “The Long March (II)”, in Eastern Horizon[3], 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[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2009, Travel[5]:
- 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.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], 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.