Zunyi
See also: Zūnyì
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遵義／遵义 (Zūnyì).
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Zunyi
- A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
- [1940, Yüeh-hwa Lin, “The Miao-Man Peoples of Kweichow”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies[3], volume 5, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 264–265:
- The next year, a certain bandit chieftain Yang Lung-hsi 陽隆喜 plundered the districts of T‘ung-tzü 桐梓 and Jên-huai 仁懷 and encircled the prefecture of Tsun-i 遵義.[...]
The emperor also approved a request by the people of Tsun-i, Kweichow, for permission to establish a memorial temple.]
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- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsunyi or Tsun-i”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1955, column 1
- ^ “Tsun-i or Tsun·yi”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 783, column 2
Further reading edit
- Zunyi in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Zunyi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zunyi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 1