Yangqu

Proper noun

Yangqu

1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • In 1945 Hua became the secretary of the Chinese Communist party’s* Chiao-ch’eng County Committee and was promoted two years later to be secretary of the Yang-ch’ü County Party Committee and political commissar of the local Communist forces.[1992, “HUA KUO-FENG”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167
   • The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained...1996, Roger R. Thompson, “Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese Countryside: Christians, Confucians, and the Modernizing State, 1861-1911”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the...