Yijun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜君 (Yíjūn).

Yijun

1. A county of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2001, Bianco, Lucien, “The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:

     Three early Republican incidents, all originating in Shaanxi province, exemplify much more aggressive moves. In the course of the first one (1913),[...]Sixteen months later in Yijun county, opium commissar Wang Jiechen and more than ten policemen escorting him were killed by one hundred bandits, who had been commissioned by local opium-growers to protect forbidden poppy plants in exchange for a share in the profits from opium sales. The bandits went on to occupy the county capital.