I-wu

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See also: iwu

English

Map including I-WU (AMS, 1955)

Etymology

From Mandarin 義烏义乌 (Yìwū) Wade–Giles romanization: I⁴-wu¹.

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I-wu

  1. Alternative form of Yiwu
    • 1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium, University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:
      The provincial censor, Chu I-hsin, a native of I-wu [in Chekiang], who was then lecturing at the Kuang-ya Academy, called on me and we debated on many questions.
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
      In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.
    • 1995, Thomas G. Nimick, “CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY”, in Ming Studies, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      The famous general Ch'i Chi-kuang led troops from Chekiang's I-wu County in the campaigns against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast between 1561 and 1567.

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