West China (simplified Chinese: 华西; traditional Chinese: 華西; pinyin: huáxī), refers to the area around China's Sichuan Province (including Chongqing Municipality, which was part of the province until 1997) in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. This term was widely used before 1949, however, it is not widely used contemporaneously.
Famous quotes containing the words west and/or china:
“The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded their crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce. Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past,—as it is to some extent a fiction of the present,—the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)