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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsi¹-chʻuan¹.
Proper noun
Hsi-ch'uan
- Alternative form of Xichuan
1982, Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:More recently, a Chʻu tomb at Hsi-chʻuan, Honan Province, dated to the Spring and Autumn period, has yielded several bronze vessels with decoration that suggests to the authors of the archaeological report that they might have been cast by the lost-wax method (see WW, no. 10 [1980]: 21-26, especially p. 23, pls. 1-2).
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