Xunyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旬陽／旬阳.

Xunyang

1. A county-level city in Ankang, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
   • [1973, “New Upsurge of Mass Literature and Art”, in Chinese Literature‎, number 7, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 104:

     Minghsing Brigade of Changsha Commune in Hsunyang County, Shensi Province, has encouraged amateur literary and art activities for about a decade.]

   • 1994, Kristof, Nicholas D.; Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power‎, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 475:

     Local authorities sometimes are brutal in their efforts to crush the underground Christian church in peasant areas. In March 1993, for example, police attacked a religious meeting in Taoyuan village in Shaanxi Province’s Xunyang County.