Yangshuo

• (from Wade–Giles) Yang-shuo

Borrowed from Mandarin 陽朔／阳朔 (Yángshuò).

Yangshuo

1. A county of Guilin, Guangxi, China.
   • 1958, Edwin George Beal, Jr., The Origin of Likin, 1853-1864 (釐金制度之起源)‎, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

     On December 10, 1851 the court issued a seemingly self-confident and boastful edict,¹¹ in which it stated that Yung-an was being surrounded by imperial troops under Saishanga, who had been stationed at Yangshuo 陽朔 ; it announced, with reference to the Taiping movement, that "this wriggling little band of wretches has now become as a wandering ghost at the bottom of a caldron; whenever the day is selected it can immediately be crushed with a single blow"; and it promised that ample funds for suppressing the Taipings would be forthcoming as long as they were needed.

   • 1964, Jen Yu-ti (任育地), A Concise Geography of China (中国地理概述)‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:

     To sail downstream from Kweilin between the green hills that line the banks of the Likiang around Yangshuo is a never-to-be-forgotten experience. As another popular saying has it: “Even more beautiful than the scenery of Kweilin is that of Yangshuo.”

   • [1977, Chiang, Yee, “Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo”, in China Revisited‎, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 153, 155:

     After breakfast the next day, Ho Li-chih came to invite Yang Shu-tien and me to the Li River for a boat trip to another county, Yang-shuo.[...]This was the county of Yang-shuo that we had come to see. The respective beauties of Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo have been debated by visitors over the centuries, some extolling one and some the other.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yangshuo.

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