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n. A prefecture-level city Jiangsu province, in eastern China.
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Yangzhou, formerly romanized as Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu, China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Its population was 4,414,681 at the 2010 census and its urban area is home to 2,146,980 inhabitants, including three urban districts, currently in the agglomeration.
Historically, Yangzhou is one of the wealthiest cities in China, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, artists, and scholars. Its name (lit. "Rising Prefecture") refers to its former position as the capital of the ancient Yangzhou prefecture in imperial China.
Yangzhou is a modern prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China.
Yangzhou may also refer to:
- Yangzhou Town, a town in Yang County, Shaanxi, China
- Yangzhou Township, a town in Wuning County, Jiangxi, China
Usage examples of "yangzhou".
He is an incorrigible scamp born to Spring Fragrance in the Yangzhou whorehouse, Vernal Delights.
He remembered as a child in Yangzhou watching the bone-setters mend the broken arms of his street-urchin friends, how they used to set the break with a splint made of two pieces of wood, then apply a herbal liniment of some kind.
On his original journey to Peking from Yangzhou he had been accompanied by the seasoned River and Lake veteran Whiskers Mao.
There was even a Huzhou dumpling shop in Yangzhou, and the customers at Vernal Delights had been in the habit of constantly sending little Trinket off to fetch some.
My grandfather was an important official in Yangzhou during the Ming dynasty, and he was brave too.
When he was dead she had no one to turn to, so she started roaming the streets of Yangzhou, and was taken in by this man, a kind man, a rich man, who happened to be .
The Ten Day Massacre of Yangzhou by the Manchus was mentioned, and Kang Xi said that one thing he was planning to do was to grant freedom from taxes to that city for several years.
He says that in the Ten Day Massacre of Yangzhou they behaved like wild animals.
Gu Yanwu who, with his friends Lii Liuliang and Huang Zongxi, was rescued by the Helmsman Chen Jinnan when the boat in which they were travelling to Yangzhou was taken over by government agents at the beginning of our story.