Yangzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæŋ.zi/
ipa: /ˈjɑŋ-/
ipa: /-tsi/
ipa: /-tsə/
enpr: yängʹdzûʹ
Forms: form: Yanzi
Etymology: The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 揚子 /扬子 (Yángzǐ).
Senses: examples: text: The only armed guards we saw in China were army and militia sentries on duty at public buildings or other important structures, such as the bridge across the Yangzi River at Wuhan.
ref: 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:
text: The triple city of Wuhan, capital of Hebei^([sic – meaning Hubei]) province, lies on the middle reaches of the Yangzi River at its confluence with the Han River, and on the main north-south railway linking Peking and Canton.
ref: 1980, “China”, in All-Asia Guide, Hongkong: Far Eastern Economic Review, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:
text: Of his novels, the best known is "Soul Mountain," a long, impressionistic, musing work that arose from a 10-month walking tour Mr. Gao took along the Yangzi River in 1986 following a period of increasing harassment from the Chinese authorities over the content of his plays.
ref: 2000 October 12, “Gao Xingjian Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2017, Arts:
text: The Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River, upriver from the Yangzi, cuts the region in two. The groups on the east side of the river, the NaRu, the Na, and the Nahing, understand one another.
ref: 2001, Cai Hua, “General Presentation”, in Asti Hustvedt, transl., A Society without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China, New York: Zone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: The Buddhist monastery Guangjiao (Broad Teaching) for which Langshan was noted can be traced back to the Tang dynasty, when the hill it now stands on was still an island in the Yangzi, and a ferry was used for pilgrimages. Langshan subsequently became one of the earliest small towns in Nantong, for the thousands of visitors who were attracted by the monastery and the vistas of the river demanded restaurants, inns, snack shops, joss stick and candle shops, and other services.
ref: 2003, Qin Shao, “The Model in Space and Time”, in Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields.
ref: 2008, China (Eyewitness Travel Guides), Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Finally, he built the 2000-kilometre (1200-mile) Grand Canal which linked the Yangzi River in the south to the Yellow River in the north.
ref: 2008, Adeline Yen Mah, China: Land of Dragons and Emperors, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:
text: The middle, most common, kind, was known as “anzhi,” or “peaceably established.” It was used against the poet and official Su Shi, who was found guilty of “great irreverence” for publishing poems critical of government policies in 1079 and sentenced to two years of village arrest in Huangzhou on the Yangzi River.
ref: 2011 March 9, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Out of Jail in China, but Not Free”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2017, Asia Pacific:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Yangtze.
Derived terms: Yangzi Jiang