Xichang

See also: xìcháng and Xīchāng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsi-ch'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Xichang

1. A county-level city in Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China
   • [1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[2], 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^[3], 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.]

   • 1987 December 20, Ross Terrill, “A World Away From Beijing”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2009, Travel‎^[5]:

     A city of flowers and pagodas, Xichang is the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, which contains 3.3 million people, 1.37 million of them Yi.

Synonyms

• (historic): Jiandu; Jianchang

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西昌 (zh) (Xīchāng)

• Nuosu: ꀒꎂ (op rro)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 1
• Xichang, Hsi-ch'ang, Hsi-chang, Hsichang at Google Ngram Viewer