Yunghsing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 永興 /永兴 (Yǒngxīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-hsing¹.
Senses: examples: text: […]islands to aid in the establishment of Chinese administrative authority there, AP reports from Nanking. Two islands of the group will bear the names of Yunghsing and Taiping and the Ministry of the Interior has been instructed to solemnize the renaming of the islands with an announcement to the public.
ref: 1947, The China Weekly Review, volumes 105-106, →OCLC, page 219, column 2:
text: Radio Peiping said one plane had "intruded into China's territorial air space" over Yunghsing, Pei and Shu Islands in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung Province, and another over Tung Island in the Hsisha.
ref: 1959 June 28, “Chinese Charge Air Violations By U. S. Planes”, in Monroe Morning World, volume 30, number 224, Monroe, Louisiana, sourced from Tokyo (AP), →OCLC, page 6-A, column 4:
text: A United States Navy patrol plane today violated Communist China's air space, Radio Peking charged in a broadcast heard here.
The broadcast said the alleged violation occured over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha group off the Southern China province of Kwangtung. Peking said the Chinese foreign ministry issued the "62nd warning regarding provocation by United States military aircraft" as a result of the alleged vilolation^([sic – meaning violation]).
ref: 1959 August 23 [1959 August 22], “Peking Charges U. S. Violated Air Space”, in The Washington Post, volume 82, number 261, sourced from London UPI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 15, column 7:
text: A patrol plane of the U.S. Navy intruded over Yunghsing, Chung and Pei islands, Kwangtung Province, this morning, Radio Peking reported.
A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized to give the sixty-third serious warning regarding the military provocation by U.S. military aircraft.
ref: 1959 August 25 [1959 August 24], “Peking Protest”, in The China Mail, number 37444, sourced from AFP, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: Today's intrusion, the spoekman said, followed "immediately after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued on May 11 its 95th serious warning against the intrusion of a U. S. naval patrol airplane into China's air space over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung province."
ref: 1960 May 14 [1960 May 13], “Peking Charges U. S. Plane Flight”, in The Washington Post, volume 83, number 161, sourced from Peking, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 4, column 6:
text: China charged that U.S. military planes intruded in Chinese territorial air on two occasions Saturday and immediately issued a warning, its 104th, against "military provocations."
The New China News Agency said the first plane intruded over the Yunghsing, Shih and Pei Islands in the Hsisha island group, Kwangtung provience^([sic – meaning province]), between 9:55 a.m. and 10:04 a.m.
ref: 1960 June 5, “China Charges U.S. Military Plane Intrusion”, in Independent-Press-Telegram, volume 8, number 41, Long Beach, Cali., sourced from Tokyo (UPI), page C-6, column 4:
text: Peiping radio claimed an American naval patrol plane “intruded” Saturday night over Communist China - held Yunghsing and Shin islands in the Paracel Islands off mainland south China. A spokesman for Peiping's Foreign Ministry, the broadcast said, was authorized to issue what it described as the "128th serious warning against this military provocation by a U.S. military aircraft."
ref: 1960 December 12, “'Intruder' Report”, in The Daily Record, volume 72, number 215, Stroudsburg, PA., sourced from Tokyo AP, →OCLC, page 2, column 7:
text: Communist China charged Friday that a U.S. military plane intruded into Red air space and issued its "249th serious warning" against such alleged incidents, the New China news agency said.
The news agency said that the American plane intruded into "China's territorial air over the Yunghsing, Pei and Shu islands of the Hsisha Island group in Kwangtung Province this afternoon."
ref: 1963 July 6, “Charge Violation”, in The Cumberland News, volume 25, number 222, Cumberland, Maryland, sourced from Tokyo (UPI), page 2, column 5:
text: In the South China Sea are four groups of islands: the Tungsha, the Sisha, the Chungsha and the Nansha, all coral in origin. They are fairly small, the 1.85 square-kilometre Yunghsing Island being the largest in the Sisha group.
ref: 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], “The South China Region”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 154:
english: A Concise Geography of China
translation: A Concise Geography of China
text: Radio Peking said one plane intruded over territorial waters east of Namoa Island and another near Yunghsing Is­land, both off the coast of the southern province of Kwangtung.
ref: 1968 February 28, “Peking Accuses U.S. Of Intruding”, in The Lincoln Star, volume 66, number 129, Lincoln, Nebraska, sourced from Tokyo (AP), →OCLC, page 24, column 4:
text: A U.S. military plane intruded over China's territorial waters in the area east of Namoa Island in Kwangtung Province between 0840 and 0846 on 27 February. Between 1117 and 1121 on the same day another U.S. military plane intruded into China's territorial air space over the Yunghsing Island of the Hsish^([sic – meaning Hsisha]) Islands in Kwangtung Province. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized in relation to these provocations by the U.S. military planes, to issue the 451st serious warning.
ref: 1969 [1968 February 27], Joseph C. Goulden, “The Dangerous Business of Electronic Espionage”, in Truth is the First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair—Illusion and Reality, James B. Adler, Inc., sourced from New China News Agency, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 114-115:
text: The other day, following the latest "U. S. air intrusion," Peking radio announced, "A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized, in relation to the military provocation by U. S. military plane, to issue the 49th serious warning. The plane insolently intruded China's air space over the area of Yunghsing Island and Tung Island in the Kwangtung Province between 13:06 hours and 13:26 hours."
ref: 1971 August 6, Robert S. Allen, “U. S. Studying To Ease New Tension With Taiwan”, in The Farmville Herald, volume 81, number 92, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1B, columns 4-5:
text: Militiawomen on the island of Yunghsing in the Hsisha Islands in combat practice.
ref: 1975 June, “Women of New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Yunghsing, the biggest of the Hsisha Islands.
ref: 1978, Chung Chih [众志], An Outline of Chinese Geography [中国地理简况], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 192:
english: 中国地理简况
translation: 中国地理简况
text: In July 1990, China completed the construction of a major airstrip on Woody Island (Yunghsing Island), the largest of the Paracel archipelago. The runway was reported to be 2,600 meters long and could accommodate any aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
ref: 2002, Yann-huei Song, “Internal and External Policy Input Variables in the U.S. South China Sea Policy Making”, in United States and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea: A Study of Ocean Law and Politics (Maryland Series Contemporary Asian Studies), number 168, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58:
text: South Vietnam's navy stopped Chinese fishing vessels off Hsisha, also known as the Paracel Islands, twice in February 1959. Vietnamese marines went ashore and arrested 160 Chinese fishermen on one of the islands. Beijing lodged strong protests on February 27, and Saigon had to release all the captives on March 9. A Chinese frigate and a submarine visited Yunghsing or Woody Island, the largest of the Paracels, later in March. The navy set up a land office on the island to coordinate patrols over the waters of the Macclesfield Bank and the Paracel and Spratly Islands.[…]
Saigon fell in April 1975, and the North Vietnamese invaded the Paracels, occupying five islets. Yunghsing, however, wasn't invaded. Hanoi also claimed sovereignty over the Paracels and the Spratlys on May 15. Taipei reiterated on March 19 and May 12 that the Paracels and the Spratlys are part of the "traditional" territory of the Republic of China.
ref: 2009 July 10, 洪健昭, “Sovereignty over the Spratlys II”, in National Policy Foundation [國家政策研究基金會], archived from the original on 19 Mar 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Yongxing.