Slender West Lake

English thumb|right|250px|The Bridge of the Twenty-Fours at Slender West Lake in Yangzhou Etymology en zh - cmn 瘦西湖 Skinny West Lake, the adjective distinguishing it from West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Proper noun slender west lake en lake prefecture-level city/Yangzhou province/Jiangsu c/China. en 1993 June w:Louis Cha The Deer and the Cauldron—Two Chapters from a Novel by Louis Cha w:John Minford w:Geremie Barmé East Asian History 5 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048799236&seq=5 w:Australian National University 1839-9010 1120263121 55 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048799236&seq=65 'Slender' West Lake lies on the western outskirts of Yangzhou. In the early years of the Manchu Emperor Kangxi, the area beside the lake, known as the Alley of Chiming Jade, was famed for its high concentration of houses of pleasure, and for the beauty of its singsong-girls (whose skills extended to a great deal more than bel canto). en May 23, 2011 Royston Chan; Chris Buckley; Ben Blanchard North Korea's Kim tours east China, economic ties in focus Jonathan Thatcher w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20210517161527/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-korea-north-idUSTRE74M13X20110523/ 17 May 2021 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-korea-north-idUSTRE74M13X20110523/ World News Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why. en 23 April 2014 Amy Li China’s former leader Jiang Zemin makes rare public appearance in Shanghai w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20140424130234/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1495281/jiang-zemin-makes-rare-public-appearance-shanghai https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1495281/jiang-zemin-makes-rare-public-appearance-shanghai April 24, 2014 1563-9371 648902513 Politics Jiang, 87, was first photographed touring the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou on a boat with his wife Wang Yeping, according to online photos apparently taken on Sunday. June 4, 2018 Steven Lee Myers How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global https://web.archive.org/web/20180604225924/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/books/zhou-haohui-death-notice-chinese-crime-thrillers.html 04 June 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/books/zhou-haohui-death-notice-chinese-crime-thrillers.html Profile Yangzhou, where Mr. Zhou grew up, is renowned for its literary history, especially a 9th century poet, Du Mu. One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr. Zhou’s colleagues recited it in unison during an excursion to Slender West Lake, a World Heritage Site in the city. Synonyms en West Lake inexact; en Shouxihu Related terms See en West Lake Translations lake Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瘦西湖 Shòuxīhú Further reading Slender West Lake, Shouxihu