Ku-ch'eng

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English

Map including Ku-ch'eng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 穀城 / 谷城 (Gǔchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-chʻêng².

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Ku-ch'eng

  1. Alternative form of Gucheng.
    • 1903 March, Miss Black, “The Work at Lao-ho-k'eo.”, in China's Millions, volume XI, number 3, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:
      In 1897 Ku-ch'eng Hsien, a city lying some fourteen miles below Lao-ho-k'eo, was opened as an out-station, and an evangelist sent down for permanent work.
    • , St. Bonaventure, N.Y.: Franciscan Institute Publications, Academy Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 122:
      Thus we hear of searches for Father Ts’ai in Pa-tung* County in southwest Hupeh,²⁷ and in Ku-ch’êng* and Hsiang-yang Counties in northern Hupeh.]
    • 1960, Economic Geography of Central China: Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi : Communist China, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 51:
      The people and army from the north entered the northern part of Hupeh (north of Hsiang-yang, Ku-ch'eng and Chu-shan) during the Ch'in and Han dynasties to engage in the work of reclamation.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ku-ch'eng.

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