Yueyang

See also: Yuèyáng

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岳陽岳阳 (Yuèyáng).

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Yueyang

  1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
    • [1982, Roy M. Stanley II, “The Land War in China”, in Prelude to Pearl Harbor, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128, column 1:
      Japanese troops were pulled to Yuehyang, at the junction of the Hsiang and Yangtze rivers, from Hunan, Honan, and Hupeh provinces.]
    • [1999, Chiang Kuei, translated by Timothy A. Ross, A Translation of the Chinese Novel Chung-yang (Rival Suns) by Chiang Kuei (1908-1980), Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 342:
      In his capacity as Thief-punishing General, after the grand birthday celebrations in Hankow, he transferred his headquarters to Yüeh-yang.]
  2. A county of Yueyang City, Hunan, China.
    • 2007 July 16, “China officials deny flood rats on the menu”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-16, Oddly Enough:
      A farmer holds up a rat that he killed along the Dongting Lake in Yueyang, in central China's Hunan province, July 10, 2007. Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported. []
      He Huaxian, a disease control official in Hunan’s plague-afflicted Yueyang county, denied a report in Information Times which said that trucks loaded with live rats from Hunan were headed for a local Guangzhou market, the China Daily reported on Tuesday.
    • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:
      In Yueyang county, Hunan, some 22,000 people lost their homes during the building of Tieshan Reservoir.

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