Yuhsi

Y4U1H4S1I1

A form of Yuxi — A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Yuxi.

    The PEOPLE'S DAILY today front pages a news item in column one in the experience of Yuhsi County in Yunnan which "mastered the law of agricultural field management, and found the key to increasing autumn grain production."

    1960 August 29 [1960 August 26], “Higher Autum Grain Yield is Possible”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 168, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page BBB 2-BBB 3
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    yuhsi county on the yunnan-kweichow plateau, southwest china, reaped a bumper grain harvest this year, per-hectacre yield reached 6.3 tons, which exceeds the target set by the "national programme for agricultural development", thanks to efforts made by the revolutionary people of various nationalities and the revolutonary committees at all levels in the county.

    1970 December 9 [1970 December 2], “Southwest China Hsien Reaps Bumper Harvest”, in Survey of China Mainland Press, number 4795, sourced from NCNA, Kunming, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 102

    Yang Kuo-hsiang was born in a poor peasant family in Yuhsi County in Yunnan Province, South-west China, and tended cows for a landlord at the age of nine. One year the Kuomintang reactionaries pressganged men and Yang Kuo-hsiang was forced to leave his village.

    1971, “A Yi Flight Commander”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46

    The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.

    1978 July, Yu-ting Tu, Chen Lu-fan, “Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais?”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30

Origin

  1. Mandarin玉溪
  2. EnglishYuhsi

From Mandarin 玉溪 (Yùxī), Wade–Giles romanization: Yü⁴-hsi¹.

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