Yangshuo

See also: Yángshuò

English

Alternative forms

• Yang-shuo (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 陽朔／阳朔 (Yángshuò).

Proper noun

Yangshuo

1. A county of Guilin, Guangxi, China.
   • 1958, Edwin George Beal, Jr., 釐金制度之起源 [The Origin of Likin, 1853-1864]‎^[1], 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, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎^[2], 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, Yee Chiang, “Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo”, in China Revisited‎^[3], 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.]

   • 2015 September 14, Edward Wong, “Bucolic River in Southern China Seeks a Place Among Busier Rivals”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-16, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Though Yangshuo County agencies did not respond to requests for interviews, the park proposal suggests a sense of rivalry with Guilin and the Li River. In it, officials note that while Guilin and the Li River were designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations last year, Yangshuo County was named as having the single best karst landscape by Chinese National Geographic magazine.

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

Translations

county in Guangxi, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽朔／阳朔 (zh) (Yángshuò)

• Vietnamese: Dương Sóc

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangshuo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 3

Anagrams

• Shouyang