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Yichang

• Ichang (Postal Romanization)
• I-ch'ang (Wade–Giles)

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜昌 (Yíchāng).

• IPA^(key): /jiːˈt͡ʃɑŋ/, enPR: ēʹchängʹ, yēʹchängʹ^[1]

Yichang

1. A large prefecture-level city in western Hubei, China.
   • [1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 177:

     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 investigators, from Neolithic to Han.]

   • 1974 September, Huo Pai-lin, “Huang Sheng-hsiao, Longshoreman and Poet”, in China Reconstructs‎^[3], volume XXIII, number 9, →OCLC, pages 40–41:

     HUANG Sheng-hsiao, a veteran longshoreman in the port of Yichang on the mid-Yangtze, wrote these lines to praise the new life of the dock workers and the tremendous changes that have come over the port.
     [...]Now 56, Huang Sheng-hsiao is chairman of the Crewmen and Dockers Club in Yichang and a member of the Committee of the Yangtze Crewmen and Dockers Trade Union.
     [...]In 1949 Yichang was liberated.
     [...]In 1951 he was named Class A Model Propagandist of Yichang.
     [...]During the Big Leap Forward in 1958, like people all over the country, the longshoremen of Yichang were fired with daring and enthusiasm.

   • 2019 July 8, Didi Tang, “Fears rise over safety of China’s Three Gorges dam”, in The Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2021:

     Images of an apparently twisted Three Gorges dam surfaced on social media last week, fuelling online concerns that the dam was posing a disastrous flooding threat to downstream towns and villages.
     However, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the circulated satellite images were fake and posted its own picture showing a straight dam spanning the river near Yichang in the central province of Hubei. “Nothing wrong with the Three Gorges Dam,” the company declared.

   • 2023 January 9, Gorgeous Yichang, “Yidu City of Yichang”, in YouTube‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-21‎^[6]:

     Located in western Hubei Province, Yidu, like Yichang, is part of the area known as the "Gateway to the Three Gorges".

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3527, column 3

• Chiyang