Nuchiang

From Mandarin 怒江 (Nùjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nu⁴-chiang¹.

Nuchiang

1. Alternative form of Nujiang
   • 1975 January 31, “A National Minority Area In Yunnan Province”, in Peking Review‎, number 5, →OCLC, page 22, column 2:

     THE Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture has undergone great changes since its founding in 1954. This region, situated on the frontier in Yunnan Province, southwest China, is inhabited by 12 nationalities including the Lisu, Nu, Tibetan and Han.

   • 1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 242:

     In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.

   • 1998, James S. Olson, “Lisu”, in An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China‎, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 208:

     After the Communist takeover in 1949 and the formation of the People’s Republic of China, Han military and political officials were assigned to the Lisu, and the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Region was formed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nuchiang.