Xichuan

Xi·chuan
X8I1C3H4U1A1N1

proper noun

A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hsi-ch'uan

  1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.

    The revolutionary masses of Hsichuan County have completed, three months ahead of schedule, the construction of a bridge across the (Huang) River.

    [1969 February 4 [1969 January 30], “New Honan Bridge”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 23, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 7
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    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.

    [1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in 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

    "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.

    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 Dec 2023, ワールド

Origin

  1. Mandarin淅川
  2. EnglishXichuan

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

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 淅川
  • 淅川 (sik¹ cyun¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 淅川
  • 淅川 (Xīchuān)county
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