Yuxi

See also: yuxi, yǔxì, yùxí, and Yùxī

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 玉溪 (Yùxī).

Proper noun

Yuxi

  1. A prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China.
    • [1971, “A Yi Flight Commander”, in Eastern Horizon, volume X, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
      Yang Kuo-hsiang was born in a poor peasant family in Yuhsi County in Yunnan Province, South-west China, and tended cows for a landlord at the age of nine. One year the Kuomintang reactionaries pressganged men and Yang Kuo-hsiang was forced to leave his village.]
    • [1978 July, Tu, Yu-ting; Chen Lu-fan, “Was There a Massive Exodus of Thais?”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:
      The most prominent service Tuan rendered to the Mongols was the suppression of the uprising in 1264 of some 100,000 people from the various tribes in Yunnan. The uprising spread from the present Yuhsi in Yunnan to other towns like Chuching and Chuhsiung, and finally Chungching (Kunming) fell to the rebel forces.]
    • 2001, Gregory Eliyu Guldin, What's a Peasant to Do?: Village becoming Town in Southern China, Westview Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 61:
      This turn to tobacco is not surprising, since Eshan lies smack dab in the center of China’s prime tobacco road country; the Yuxi area has long had a name for good smokes. The Hongta Shan brand cigarette factory in Yuxi City is one of the largest enterprises in all of China, paying fully half of Yunnan’s taxes to the central tax bureau and accounting for 40 percent of the province’s own revenues.
    • 2020 May 25, Qin, Amy, “Virus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-25, Asia Pacific:
      For Shu Xiao, 27, a schoolteacher in Yuxi, a city in the southwestern province of Yunnan, group dinners can be discomfiting. Ms. Shu said her family has used serving chopsticks at home since last year, when reports were circulating about a local outbreak of stomach bacteria.

Synonyms

  • Yü-ch'i

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