Tunxi
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See also: Túnxī
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 屯溪 (Túnxī).
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Tunxi
- A district of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
- [1973 June, Nai Hsia, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle”, in China Reconstructs[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:
- The bronze vessels discovered at Tunhsi, in Anhwei province south of the Yangtze River, were found in several tombs of the Western Chou dynasty.]
- 1980, Li Xueqin, 中国青铜器的奥秘 [The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes][2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 77:
- The same is true of Western Zhou bronzes excavated in Dantu county, Jiangsu Province, and Tunxi, Anhui Province.[...]The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles of south China, but rarely encountered in the Central Plain.
- 2011 October 28, Justin Bergman, “In Anhui, China, Centuries-Old Charm”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-01, TRAVEL[4]:
- Round-trip flights between Shanghai and Huangshan City (also known as Tunxi) start at 580 renminbi (about $93) […]
- [2016, Bill Porter, “Huangshan & Chiuhuashan [黃山 九花山]”, in South of the Yangtze: Travels Through the Heart of China[5], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 139:
- An hour later, we said hello to Tunhsi. Tunhsi is the gateway to Huangshan, China’s most spectacular mountain.]
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