Wenshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wǔnʹshänʹ
Forms: form: Wen-shan
form: Wunshan
Etymology: From Mandarin 文山 (Wénshān).
Senses: examples: text: The First Party Congress of Wenshan Chuang-Miao Autonomous District was held in Wenshan from 14 to 16 June. It was attended by 840 party representatives from all fronts in the district. On behalf of the party core group of the Wenshan Chuang-Miao Autonomous District Revolutionary Committee, a responsible person of the party core group delivered a work report entitled "Hold High the Banner of Unity for Victory of the Ninth Party Congress and Advance Boldly Along Chairman Mao's Revolutionary Line."
ref: 1971 June 30 [1971 June 28], “Yunnan Autonomous Districts Set Up CCP Committees”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 126, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kunming Yunnan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Southwest Region, page E 2:
text: Most of the chronically poor counties in Yunnan Province in the late 1970s tended to specialize in nongrain crops in the late 1950s. That was particularly true of ten counties, almost half the provincial total of chronically poor counties, located in two contiguous prefectures, Wenshan and Hungho, in tropical southeastern Yunnan.
ref: 1983, Nicholas R. Lardy, “Living standards and the distribution of income”, in Agriculture in China's modern economic development, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185:
text: The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation.
Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of discipline and the law,” the Yunnan Province Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, without elaborating.
ref: 2021 April 30, Tom Daly, “China graft watchdog probes governor of emerging aluminium hub”, in Richard Chang, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023, ALUMINUM:
glosses: A Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
examples: text: In April of 1944, an American colonel conferred with Nationalist Chinese General Kwan Lin-jen in Wenshan, southern Yunnan Province, on the defense of that region against the Japanese in Indochina. The colonel was helping the general train his troops.
ref: 1952 June, Kai-yu Hsu, “Behind Red China's Human Sea Tactics”, in United States Army Combat Forces Journal, volume 2, number 11, →OCLC, page 16:
text: “The suspect turned to a local police station for help, but was too furious to wait for an investigation,” Xinhua news agency said, citing police in Yunnan Province in southwestern China.[…]
He killed one passer-by and injured another nine, none critically, on Monday morning at the Shuangqiao Garden Plaza in Wenshan county, before being seized by police.
ref: 2008 July 16, Lucy Hornby, “China worker stabs 10 after fake money switch”, in Alex Richardson, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2022, World News:
glosses: A county-level city of Wenshan, Yunnan, China.
examples: text: Fact: An outbreak of tea inchworm resulted in tremendous loss to the tea farmers in Wenshan area near Taipei. Entomologists were called upon to reduce the population, but before any action was taken, the worms died in one month.
ref: 1974, Tse-Hwei Shen, A Communication Strategy for Increasing Population Awareness Among School-age Children in Taiwan, →OCLC, page 48:
text: Over the past four years, Taipei has spent NT$50 million (about US$1.6 million) on the project, which has established sustainable firefly populations in the Wenshan, Daan and Chungshan districts of the city.[…]
Learning from Kitakyushu’s success, environmentalists used similar methods to restore the firefly population in Taipei, beginning in 2012 with one small project in Wenshan, then moving to other districts once their methods were perfected.
ref: 2017 October 24, “How fireflies were brought back from the brink in urban Taipei”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2017, Society:
text: Speaking at an election result viewing party in Taipei’s Wenshan district, a Kuomintang volunteer, Lin Mei-chuan, said she disapproved of the Tsai administration’s handling of the economy, as well as cross-strait ties.
ref: 2018 November 24, Chris Horton, “Taiwan’s President Quits as Party Chief After Stinging Losses in Local Races”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Taipei, Taiwan.