Chu-hsi

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Map including Chu-hsi (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 竹溪竹谿 (Zhúxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu²-hsi¹.

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Chu-hsi

  1. Alternative form of Zhuxi
    • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:
      The 1829 edition of the history of Chu-hsi county, in the extreme northwest of Hupei, said that the overwhelming majority of the local population were immigrants, mostly from Shensi and Kiangsi and also from Honan, Chihli, and Shantung.
    • 1977, Ts'ui-Jung Liu (劉翠溶), “十九世紀漢水流域的糧食貿易 [Notes on the Grain Trade in the Han River Area During the Nineteenth Century]”, in Proceedings of the National Science Council, volume 1, number 11, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 January 2021, page 137:
      As for the rice trade in Hupeh, it is noteworthy that in the early nineteenth century, rice from Chu-shan and Chu-hsi-two districts in hilly north-western Hupeh-was even demanded by Hsün-yang and Pai-ho in southern Shensi (28).
    • 2006, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr., The Grand Scribe's Records,, volume V.1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 385:
      About forty miles southeast of modern Chu-hsi 竹溪 County in Hupei (T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 1:17).

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