Yichun
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[edit]Etymology 1
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[edit]Yichun
- A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
- 2011 July 16, Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe, “In China, loans lure city officials”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, Business[3]:
- That’s the case in Yichun, a Maryland-sized area of about 1.3 million people deep inside the birch and pine forest on China’s border with Russia.
Yichun is a poor city in a poor province. The income of its residents was little more than half the national average last year. That hasn’t stopped the government from going on a spending spree. The new local police headquarters has a miniature dome reminiscent of that of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
- 2019 February 26, Tiffany May, “Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-26, Lens[5]:
- He was in Yichun, a faded boomtown in northeastern China, where in December, 2016 he began photographing young people whose isolation he recognized in his own life.
Translations
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yichun
- A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
- 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China][6], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 133:
- Yichun and Wantsai produce grass-linen, another distinctive handicraft product.
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[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Ichun or I-ch’un”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 823, column 2
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1