Xiushan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 秀山 (Xiùshān).

Xiushan

1. A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China.
   • [1973, Alley, Rewi, “Some Hunan Journeys”, in Travels in China, 1966-71 (中国见闻)‎, Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 27:

     The price of deforestation over the centuries is that floodwater comes up so high at times that low bridges are liable to be washed away. On the Szechuan side, it is Hsiushan county. On the Kweichow side, the Sungtao Miao Autonomous County.]

   • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China‎, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     Ge and others (1979, p. 169) named the Rongxi Formation for red beds lying above the Majiaochong Formation and below the Xiushan Formation. The type locality is about 6 km south of Rongxi, Xiushan County, SE Sichuan.