Xunyi

Proper noun

Xunyi

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.[1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227
   • Then in August 1978, the People’s Daily reported a directive transmitted by Hua Kuo-feng, then chairman of CPC, concerning the despotic practices of the cadres in Hsunyi county of Shensi province.[1987, Alan P. L. Liu, “Popular Politicians and Totalitarian Cadres”, in Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization in Taiwan and Mainland China, 1950-1980, number 358, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover...