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The Bridge of the Twenty-Fours at Slender West Lake in Yangzhou

Calque of Chinese 瘦西湖 (Shòuxīhú, literally “Skinny West Lake”), the adjective distinguishing it from West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

A lake in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
- 2011 May 23, Royston Chan, Chris Buckley, Ben Blanchard, “North Korea's Kim tours east China, economic ties in focus”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 May 2021, World News‎^[2]:
  Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why.
- 2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2018, Profile‎^[4]:
  Yangzhou, where Mr. Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu. One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr. Zhou’s colleagues recited it in unison during an excursion to Slender West Lake, a World Heritage Site in the city.

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