Yichang

Proper noun

Yichang

1. A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
   • To begin in the Yangtze Valley between Yi-ch’ang (Hupei) and Pa-tung (Szechwan), in the Hsiling Gorge area that was the gateway to the Red basin to the west: fifty-four early sites investigated in 1960 have been grouped into five categories, ranging in date, according to the estimates of the...[1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177
   • Ships of over 1,000 tons today can make the 680-kolometer round trip between Yichang and Chungking in 5 or 6 days, instead of 10 to 15 days formerly, thanks to the enormous amount of work done after liberation to make this most perilous section of the Yangtze River safe for navigation.1972 December 14 [1972 December 3], “Szechwan Yangtze River Navigation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking...