Definition of "Yangshuo"

On December 10, 1851 the court issued a seemingly self-confident and boastful edict,¹¹ in which it stated that Yung-an was being surrounded by imperial troops under Saishanga, who had been stationed at Yangshuo 陽朔 ; it announced, with reference to the Taiping movement, that "this wriggling little band of wretches has now become as a wandering ghost at the bottom of a caldron; whenever the day is selected it can immediately be crushed with a single blow"; and it promised that ample funds for suppressing the Taipings would be forthcoming as long as they were needed.

1958, Edwin George Beal, Jr., 釐金制度之起源 ‎, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 15

To sail downstream from Kweilin between the green hills that line the banks of the Likiang around Yangshuo is a never-to-be-forgotten experience. As another popular saying has it: “Even more beautiful than the scenery of Kweilin is that of Yangshuo.”

1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 201

After breakfast the next day, Ho Li-chih came to invite Yang Shu-tien and me to the Li River for a boat trip to another county, Yang-shuo.[...]This was the county of Yang-shuo that we had come to see. The respective beauties of Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo have been debated by visitors over the centuries, some extolling one and some the other.]

, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, pages 153, 155

Though Yangshuo County agencies did not respond to requests for interviews, the park proposal suggests a sense of rivalry with Guilin and the Li River. In it, officials note that while Guilin and the Li River were designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations last year, Yangshuo County was named as having the single best karst landscape by Chinese National Geographic magazine.

2015 September 14, Edward Wong, “Bucolic River in Southern China Seeks a Place Among Busier Rivals”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2015-09-16, Asia Pacific‎