Yunxi

See also: Yúnxī

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄖西郧西 (Yúnxī).

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Yunxi

  1. A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • [1969 June 4 [1969 May 24], “Hupeh Disease”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 107, →OCLC, page D 4:
      The revolutionary committee of Yunhsi county, Hupeh, has sent a propaganda team of medical workers to treat the ko ting (0344 3050) disease among peasants in Lion commune located in mountains over 1,000 meters above sea level.]
    • [1977, China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
      Two more fossil teeth were discovered last year in Pailung (White Dragon) Cave in neighboring Yunhsi county, an upper right second premolar and a lower left first premolar, both very well preserved from root to crown.]
    • 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
      Not far from Yun Xian County, another fossil site was found in Yunxi County, also in Yunyang Prefecture, Hubei Province. Fifteen kilometers east of the county seat of Yunxi is Bailongdong Cave on the eastern slope of Shenwuling Hill.
    • 2009 February 9, Chris Buckley, “Growing opposition to China's 'black jails'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-16, Asia Pacific:
      Zheng Dajing, from Hubei Province, said the detention center he was held in had banners hanging inside its small grounds declaring it a "law education class." But there were no textbooks or lectures in the disused tobacco-buying station in his home county, Yunxi, that he said became his jail for over a year.

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