Yangqu

alternative Yangchu

1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

   Local residents hold flags of various nations to form the Olympic Rings to celebrate the Spring Festival and promote the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Loess Plateau in Yangqu country, Shanxi province February 16, 2008.

   2008 March 5, Liu Zhen, Nick Mulvenney, “China ramps up psychology and downplays medal hopes”, in Alastair Himmer, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 28 May 2023, Sports News

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   In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.

   [1992, “HUA KUO-FENG”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167

   The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained that even though the Zongli yamen had sent a document on these matters to provincial authorities, nothing had changed.

   1996, Roger R. Thompson, “Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese Countryside: Christians, Confucians, and the Modernizing State, 1861-1911”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58