Yuncheng University (运城学院) is a university in

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

under the authority of the provincial government. It was formerly known as Yuncheng Advanced Training College. Justin Hill spent three years here, 1993–1995, teaching with

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, which was the source for his first book, ''

A Bend in the Yellow River A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes' ...

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Noted people

* Justin Hill — English writer who has written and translated widely about China Universities and colleges in Shanxi {{China-university-stub