Xishui

alternative Hsi-shui · alternative Sishui

1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

   On the way back to Hsishui County centre, we admired the mass of spring blossom of tung trees, and others.

   [1972, Rewi Alley, “Agriculture and Industry in Two Chinese Hinterland Counties”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XI, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43

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   Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.

   [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14

   A belated Chinese Communist report disclosed today that a local armed revolt against the Communist government broke out in Hsishui county in Hupei province on Feb. 21 and 22.

   [1952 March 23 [1952 March 22], “Revolt by 280 Armed Men in Red China Acknowledged”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 180, St. Louis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2A, column 6

   China's agricultural ministry said on Thursday it had confirmed a new African swine fever outbreak near the city of Huangguang in the central province of Hubei. The outbreak occurred on a farm of 636 pigs in Xishui county, it said, adding that 13 had already died and a further 24 were sick.

   2018 November 15, Dominique Patton, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2024, World

   So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.

   2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022

alternative Hsi-shui · alternative Sishui

1. A county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.