Wenshan

Proper noun

Wenshan

1. A Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
   • 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...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...
   • 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...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
2. A county-level city of Wenshan, Yunnan, China.
   • 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.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
   • “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...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
3. A district of Taipei, Taiwan.
   • 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.1974, Tse-Hwei Shen, A Communication Strategy for Increasing Population Awareness Among School-age Children in Taiwan, →OCLC, page 48
   • 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.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