Citations:Yunan

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English citations of Yunan

Yunan County, Guangdong[edit]

  • 1951 May, Hsinhua News Agency Release‎[1], →OCLC, page 81, column 3:
    A typical example of the lightning growth of the cooperatives since land reform comes from Kwangtung Province. Early in April the Yunan County Cooperative in Kwangtung sent a team of workers to a nearby village where land reform had […]
  • 1971 July, Hsinhua Selected News Items‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 2:
    Many leading cadres go to forestry centres where they worked alongside the masses. The examplery deeds of the cadres deepen the mass movement.
    Yunan County in mountainous region of Kwangtung Province has set a good example.
  • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China‎[3], Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 2:
    It then included the Wentoushan Formation at its top. The type locality is Lientan, Yunan County, Guangdong Province.
  • 2009, Yong-Fu Xu, Yu Xun-Lin, Chen Bing-Hui, “Floristic analysis of seed plants in Tongledashan Nature Reserve in Yunan, Guangdong Province.”, in Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany‎[4], volume 17, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    A floristic study of the Tongledashan Nature Reserve in Yunan County, Guangdong Province, China was carried out. The seed plants are found to be abundant in this area, represented by 1 002 species belonging to 542 genera in 149 families.
  • 2011 August 27, Mimi Lau, “Little girl's horrific abuse shames the nation”, in South China Morning Post‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 March 2023‎[6]:
    Newspaper readers have donated about 620,000 yuan to help pay for her medical care, adding to a 50,000 yuan fund established by the Yunan county government.
  • 2015, Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, Guangwen He, “Regulations and Policies on Growth of Non-State Enterprises”, in The Ecology Of Chinese Private Enterprises‎[7], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
    On the local level, a good example is the credit rating system in Yunan County in Guangdong Province. […] Yunan County engaged all relevant functional departments in the county, and using the People's Bank of China's credit rating system, created the Yunan County Enterprise Non-Bank Credit Information Enquiry System in 2009.
  • [(Can we date this quote?), “Mass Incident Monitor #9: Site Selection of an Incineration Plant Project Abolished After a Four-day Protest”, in Dui Hua Foundation‎[8], archived from the original on 29 September 2020‎[9]:
    On June 22 around 20,000 people from Yu’nan[sic – meaning Yunan] County in Yunfu, Guangdong blocked the Guangxi-bound highway to protest a waste incinerator project, according to news media sources. […]
    The incinerator was set to be located less than one kilometer away from nearby towns in Yu’nan[sic – meaning Yunan] County.    ]
  • 2023, Chuan Huang, Changjian Liu, Jia Tian, Hanbing Sun, Xiaoqing Zhang, “Location Optimization of Vessel Traffic Service Radar Station in Expansion Process”, in Zhengbing Hu, Ivan Dychka, Matthew He, editors, Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education VI‎[10], Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 836:
    In this section, the water area of Xijiang River from Fengkai County to Yunan County in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is used as an example to verify the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed method and model.

Yunnan Province as 'Yunan' (missing an 'n')[edit]

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  • 1837 September [1837 January 15], Mr. Squire, “Letter from Mr. Squire, dated Singapore, January 15, 1837.”, in The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle‎[11], volume XV, →OCLC, page 440, column 1:
    As every communication regarding China is valuable, I just notice, that the northeast frontier, through Assam and Burmah, is daily opening. Pemberton’s Munipore ; Dr. Richardson’s Journal, now publishing in the Asiatic Society’s Journal; and the Papers in the Calcutta Christian Observer, contain all the information in print which I have yet seen regarding our intercourse. One station, Sandaya, is only two hundred miles from the frontier of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province. The Baptists have some missionaries there.
  • 1837 December, T. E. MacLeod, “Journal of an Expedition to Kiang Hung on the Chinese Frontier”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal‎[12], number 72, →OCLC, page 1000:
    Their state extends on both banks of the Me Khong : it is bounded on the N. and N. E. by the Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province ; […]
  • 1865 February 16, The London and China Telegraph‎[13], volume VII, number 163, →OCLC, page 68:
    From the Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province we learn through a native source that the Miao-tsze have seized the city of Tien-choo-hsien. […]
    Natives’ accounts from Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] report that the Miao-tsze, or wild hill tribes, have mado a descent into the plain and seized the city of the Tʻien Choo-hsien.
  • 1871, John Anderson, “Note on the Maps.”, in A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] viâ Bhamô‎[14], Calcutta: Office of the Superintendant of Government Printing, →OCLC, page 431:
    I have endeavoured to add to its value by showing how much these remarkable and indefatigable men, the Roman Catholic Missionaries of China, have achieved, and I have taken advantage of the positions which they determined on the western limits of Yunan province, where it touches the Shan States dependent on Burmah.
  • 1890 April 5, “Telegraphic Communication Between India and China.”, in The Electrical World‎[15], volume XV, number 14, →OCLC, page 236, column 3:
    The wires now stretch as far eastward as Bhamo, and the China Government some time ago had extended their western lines as far as Yung Chang, thirty miles east of Momein, in the Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province, and not more than 130 miles from the northeastern frontier of Upper Burma.
  • [1911 October 16 [1911 October 15], “CENSOR STOPS REVOLT NEWS.; Troops Moving South, but Number Concealed -- Train Service Reduced.”, in The New York Times‎[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12, page 6‎[17]:
    The telegraph administration refuses to transmit messages either to or from the Provinces of Hu-Peh, Hu-Nan, Kiang-Si, Sze-Chuan, Kwei-Chow, and Yu-Nan[sic – meaning Yun-Nan].]
  • 1944 April 29, “FOURTEENTH USAF HQ., CHUNGKING”, in Army Navy Journal‎[18], volume LXXXI, number 35, Washington, D.C., page 1031, column 2:
    Lightning and Warhawk fighters of the Fourteenth Air Force on 23 April carried out three strafing missions against Japanese installations in western Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province, Burma and northern Thailand.
  • 1962 March, “Eastern Diary”, in Eastern Horizon‎[19], volume II, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
    The famous Cheng Ho, who visited Pakistan in the 15th century, was a Muslim from Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan].
  • 1968, Henry Giordano, quotee, Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1968‎[20], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 205:
    One of the major producing areas for opium is Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province in Red China. It is estimated in that area about a thousand tons comes out of an area referred to as Burma, Thailand, and Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan]. Some comes from Thailand and Burma but the major portion is from Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province.
  • 1974 July-August, Gary Foley, “An Aboriginal In The People's Republic Of China”, in Michael Rose, editor, For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism‎[21], Republished work of New Dawn, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 197:
    For me to be able to see my ideas actually working in the Hsishuangpanna in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province among the Thai nationality people, was, to say the least, an extremely inspirational experience.
  • 1979 November 4, “Rain damage”, in Free China Weekly [自由中國週報]‎[22], volume XX, number 43, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
    Intelligence sources in Taipei said that torrential rains have devastated the Nu River area of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province, resulting in a large number of deaths, landslides, and the destruction of the main communications and utility systems.
    They quoted the “Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Daily” on Oct. 26 as saying the floods covered the areas ranging from counties of Kong Mount, Fu Kong, to Pin Chiang, and washed away sections of highways, electric pylons, houses, farms and the main sewerage system.
  • 1981, Young Hum Kim, American Frontier Activities in Asia: U.S.-Asian Relations in the Twentieth Century‎[23], Chicago: Nelson-Hall, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10, 37, 173:
    At the same time, France was given both the right to build railroads in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province and the assurance that China would not cede to any other power all or part of the provinces bordering on Tongking. […]
    It was implicitly understood by the two powers that the areas affected by their influence in China were, for Japan, the province of Fukien and “the regions of Manchuria and Mongolia,” and, for France, the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan. […]
    At the same time Chinese troops advanced from Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] and occupied Bhamo.
  • 1999 June 15, Barry Wain, “Border Town in Myanmar Finds Muse in Commerce”, in The Wall Street Journal‎[24], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 April 2023:
    The 176-kilometer stretch from Lashio to the border is part of the so-called Burma Road from World War II, which extended into Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province and allowed the Allies to resupply Nationalist forces fighting the Japanese in western China.
  • 2002 April 3, “Police snag most wanted”, in Taipei Times‎[25], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 March 2023, Taiwan News, page 2‎[26]:
    Nicknamed the “pangolin,” he escaped from Taiwan to China in 1995. He was arrested by Chinese police in March 2000 for kidnapping a Taiwanese business man in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province. He was later deported from China before being caught by Taiwan police.
  • 2006 June 16, Xiaoyuan Wang, “Greenpeace showcases peasant photographers”, in Beijing Today‎[27], number 263, →ISSN, →OCLC, Expat news, page 7, columns 1–2:
    The five photographers, Li Mingfu, Xiong Guizhi, Ma Meiyan, Li Zikang, and Bai Yuxian, are all farmers from ethnic minority counties in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province. They were given a Contax camera each, and shot photos of their lives and rice farming from spring to winter during the year.
  • 2007 September 27, Marco Bünte, quotee, “Beijing's Role in the Myanmar Crisis”, in Deutsche Welle‎[28], archived from the original on 29 November 2023‎[29]:
    "One shouldn't forget that it's a border region with a very long border. This means the developments in Myanmar always have an influence on the region and the bordering Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province."
  • 2013 July 8, Corey Kilgannon, Jeffrey E. Singer, “A ‘Cycling Madman’ Pedals His Way Across the World”, in The New York Times‎[30], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 March 2023, OFFBEAT‎[31]:
    After being turned away at the Finland border, he flew back to China and basically started over, this time through the far western region of Xinjiang and then south to Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province and onto Vietnam.
  • 2013 November 6, George McKibbens, “Analysis: Despite Starbucks-bashing, global coffee industry has China firmly in its sights”, in South China Morning Post‎[32], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2013, China Insider‎[33]:
    A farmer picks coffee berries in Puer, Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province.
  • 2015 March 4, Adam Taylor, “Prince William’s visit to Chinese elephant sanctuary sparks debate on cruelty”, in The Washington Post‎[34], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 October 2015, WorldViews‎[35]:
    The Duke of Cambridge made a passionate appeal against the illegal wildlife trade at a conservation conference in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province on the last day of his visit to China.
  • 2016, Elliot Liu, Maoism and the Chinese Revolution‎[36], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page [37]:
    The Long March took over a year to complete and consisted of a series of maneuvers stretching thousands of kilometers. The party traveled from Kiangsi to the remote areas of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] and Xikang before finally establishing a new base area in northwestern China centered in the city of Yenan.
  • 2017, Juan Wang, The Sinews of State Power: The Rise and Demise of the Cohesive Local State in Rural China‎[38], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 24, 76, 88, 116, 151:
    For example, as of December 2002 the burden on peasants decreased approximately 72 percent in Guangdong, 52 percent in Jiangsu, 44 percent in Zhejiang, and on average 60 percent in Yunnan, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, and Qinghai. […]
    In Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan], Zhejiang, and Hunan the rate of decollectivization accelerated following cadre meetings (Z. Xu, 2013). […]
    In western regions debts were accumulated in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Ningxia, as well as Inner Mongolia. […]
    In January and July 2006 the CCP Disciplinary Committee and the CCP Organization Department held news conferences to announce cases in Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan], Hebei, and Shaanxi provinces. […]
    For example, to overcome revenue shortages governments have canceled beneficial tax policies and requests for preemptive tax payment in Hunan, examined tax loopholes in Wuhan, more strictly enforced fines and fee collections and raised the amounts in Yunnan, and collected taxes ahead of the tax year in Hunan.
  • 2017 April 13, Calum MacLeod, “Pipeline gives China oil shortcut”, in The Times‎[39], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 December 2022:
    The 480-mile pipeline across Burma to the city of Kunming in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province, southwest China, which was completed in 2015, will be put into operation soon, Liu Zhenmin, the Chinese vice-foreign minister, said.
  • 2017 December 8, “Wang Yi to Attend and Co-chair the 3rd Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Lancang-Mekong Cooperation”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China‎[40], archived from the original on 24 March 2023‎[41]:
    Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang announces:
    On December 15, the 3rd Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) will be held in Dali, Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province.
  • 2020 September 10, “All 35 tunnels completed on 202-km Dali-Lincang railway”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎[42], archived from the original on 24 March 2023‎[43]:
    Construction of the last of the 35 tunnels on a 202-km railway linking Dali and Lincang in southwest China's Yunnan Province was completed Thursday, marking substantial progress in the railway construction project. […]
    Located in the southwest of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province, 87 percent of the Dali-Lincang railway is bridges and tunnels.
  • 2021 January 15, Keoni Everington, “Video shows Wuhan lab scientists admit to being bitten by bats”, in Taiwan News‎[44], archived from the original on 2021-01-15‎[45]:
    From 10:45 to 10:50, a team member in a camouflage shirt and without any PPE can be seen at the entrance of a cave in Yunnan, where many coronaviruses originate, with bats flying all around him. From 10:51 to 11:12, the video cuts to three lab technicians handling samples as the narrator describes "three live viruses" collected from Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan]. None are wearing masks.
    The video then cuts back to a cave in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] from 11:19 to 11:23 where most team members inside are not wearing any protection other than gloves.
  • 2021 May 22, “Second earthquake shakes China; 1 dead in earlier quake”, in AP News‎[46], archived from the original on 22 May 2021‎[47]:
    The earthquake caused strong shaking around Dali, but Chinese news reports showed relatively little damage.
    Three people died and 28 were injured, Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province’s publicity department said Saturday. […]
    China’s worst earthquake in recent years struck the mountainous western portion of Sichuan province to the north of Yunnan in 2008, killing nearly 90,000 people.
  • 2022 May 27, Eugene Whong, “More than 1,000 Myanmar migrants in China wait months or years for deportation”, in Khin Maung Nyane, transl., Radio Free Asia‎[48], archived from the original on 27 May 2022‎[49]:
    More than 100 are at a detention center in the southeastern province of Guangdong, while 1,000 more are in Baoshan, Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province, close to the Myanmar border.
  • 2023 February 9, “Jingpo people celebrate Munao Zongge festival in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan]”, in China Daily‎[50], archived from the original on 09 February 2023, Heritage‎[51]:
    The 39th Pengsheng Tongken Munao Zongge Festival kicked off on Feb 5, in Jinghan township, Longchuan county of Southwest China’s Yunnan province. […]
    More than 200,000 tourists visited Longchuan county in Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] province during this year’s Munao Zonge Festival, with 60,000 people partaking in the festival, according to local authorities.
  • 2023 May 21, “Maldives and Yunnan Province signs Two Agreements During the Governor of the People’s Government of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province’s Official Visit to the Maldives”, in GOV.MV‎[52], archived from the original on 2023-05-22, News and communications‎[53]:
    His Excellency Abdulla Shahid, Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Wang Yubo, Governor of the People’s Government of Yunan[sic – meaning Yunnan] Province, Her Excellency Wang Lixin, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Maldives, and His Excellency Ahmed Khaleel, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, today witnessed the signing of two agreements on important areas such as sports and education.
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