Xiyang
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昔陽/昔阳.
Proper noun edit
Xiyang
- A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
- 1982, “National Agricultural Policy: The Dazhai Model and Local Change in the Post-Mao Era”, in The Transition to Socialism in China[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 267:
- As national models, Dazhai and Xiyang reached the zenith of their prominence in the period after the two national conferences on building Dazhai-type counties held in September 1975 and December 1976.
Chen Yonggui, the Party secretary of Dazhai Village since 1952 or 1953, had been the most powerful figure in Xiyang since 1967 in his capacity as the chairman of the Xiyang Revolutionary Committee and a member of a Party core group.
- 1994 September 18, “Dazhai brought in from the cold”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07[4]:
- The village of about 100 households and 500 people in the poor and remote Xiyang county of Shanxi province was an important agricultural model under Mao Zedong.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiyang.
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Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 1