Yangcheng

Proper noun

Yangcheng

1. A county of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.
   • The Mandarin of Yangcheng was a powerful figure. In that part of mountainous southern Shansi, the principal city was Tsechow. Several days' journey away, circling out from the capital, were the four smaller sister cities: Yangcheng, Chin Shui, Kaoping and Lingchuang, tiny walled citadels nestling...1957, Alan Burgess, chapter 6, in 小婦人 [The Small Woman], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 76
   • A year after I had left Southeast Shansi, trying to keep track of my friends there, I learned that the young hsien chang of Yangcheng, the one who had majored in government, had been purged—but by whom, or which group, or for what cause, I never found out.1978, Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Jonathan Cape, published 1979, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100