Yichang
See also: yìcháng and Yíchāng
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization): Ichang
- (from Wade–Giles) I-ch'ang
Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜昌 (Yíchāng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jiːˈt͡ʃɑŋ/
Proper noun
Yichang
- A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
- [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 68-24780, OCLC 308337, OL 10317597M, page 177:
- To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the investigators, from Neolithic to Han.]
- 1974 September, Huo Pai-lin, “Huang Sheng-hsiao, Longshoreman and Poet”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 9, OCLC 7513641, pages 40-41:
- HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port.
[...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union.
[...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated.
[...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang.
[...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.
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Translations
a prefecture-level city in central China
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