Yuanping

Recognition of the heroic stand made last month by the late Major-General Chiang Yu-chen, a Brigadier Commander defending Yuanping, 87 miles north of Taiyuan, the Shansi provincial capital, was given by the Executive Yuan, Nov. 9.

1937 November 20, “Deputy Brigade Commander Li Tsung Dies of Battle Wounds”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 82, number 12, →OCLC, page 284

The tall, pleasant young mayor of Yuanping county seat in Shansi told Rittenberg, when the latter arrived in that city: “We'll soon be pulling out of town, for Yen's troops are coming to attack and our army is too far away.” [...]The mayor did not seem much concerned. “Just as we did with the Japs,” he replied. “We'll stay a week or two with the peasants till our troops can come and take Yuanping again.” He proved an accurate prophet. Yuanping was lost and retaken within three weeks. It suffered some looting, but its people were experienced in hiding valuables. The real value lay in the soil of the farms where the grain was growing, untouched by the passing of troops. Any county government the peasants supported could move easily out of Yuanping and back.

1949, Anna Louise Strong, The Chinese Conquer China, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 214

The police found evidence of explosives at the site of a blast at an underground hospital parking garage in northern Shanxi Province that killed at least 33 people on Monday, the government said. The hospital was for employees of the Xuangang Coal and Electricity Company in Yuanping.

2006 April 12, “World Briefing: Asia, Europe and Africa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2023, World

A suspected murderer who evaded police for 18 years has been captured in Lichuan, Xinzhou.org reports. The 43-year-old farmer from Yuanping, Shanxi, was wanted over the killing of two women and the attempted kidnapping of another in his hometown in June, 1996.

2014 December 28, Mandy Zuo, “Exploding electric hot-water bottle maims woman”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2014, China Insider