Yangchu

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A form of Yangqu — A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Yangqu.

    Autumn 1947 saw Hua as Party secretary of Yangchu county in Shansi and political commissar to the local forces there.

    1977 February, Tsung-ying Lee, “Eastern Diary”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2
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    (Feng Chi-huang), deputy secretary of Yangchu County CCP Committee, said: "The revisionists have no truth in their hands. In order to topple the dictatorship of the proletariat, they can only resort to pursuing splittism and intriguing and conspiring.

    1976 October 22 [1976 October 20], “Taiyuan Meeting Pledges Unity Around CCPCC”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 206, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 2

    Tou Pu-yi, the grandson of a famous minister of the Wu Teh Era¹, served as captain of the Imperial Guard before retiring on account of old age. He went home to Taiyuan where he had a house in Yangchu County, north of the city.

    亚洲太平洋传统文学丛书

    1986, Niu Su, “Tou Pu-yi [窦不疑]”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., Ghost Stories of Old China [不怕鬼的故事] (Asia Pacific Heritage Series [亚洲太平洋传统文学丛书]), Asiapac Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37
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