Xichang

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsi-ch'ang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 西昌 (Xīchāng, “Western Prosperity”).

Xichang

1. A county-level city in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China
   • [1954, Wiens, Herold J., Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 290:

     Chao-erh-feng planned some fundamental measures to control the Lolo, including the construction of a through road between Lei-po and Hsi-ch'ang. Up to the present this has not been accomplished, however. The Hsi-ch'ang sector was finished as far as Chao-chio city and beyond to Yeh-lu-na-ta.]

   • [1978 February, “The Long March (II)”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 2:

     After a five-day rest at Huili, the Red Army continued its drive northward. Passing through the Yi nationality area of Tehchang, Hsichang the vanguard troops led by Liu Po-cheng made an alliance with the chieftains of the Kuchi tribe, and managed to neutralize the Laowu tribe.]

• (historic): Jiandu; Jianchang