Yongchang
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng).
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Yongchang
- A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
- 1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:
- Ma Jinchang had her sent to his home in Yongchang County about 50 kilometres west of Wuwei where his chief wife, some domestic staff and about twenty guards maintained a residence which he visited periodically.
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Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yongchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3531, column 1