Xuchang
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 許昌／许昌 (Xǔchāng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Xuchang
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- , Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, →OCLC, page 6:
- The following autumn Rev. Edwins, in company with Rev. Landahl of the Hauge Mission, fared forth on Chinese carts for central Honan, finally arriving, after many dangers and vicissitudes on the way, at Hsüchow (now Hsüchang) on the Peking-Hankow Railroad.]
- , volume IV, page 72:
- Chiang habitually failed to take the advice of competent strategists. One especially harmful display of this tendency came in 1948 when, against the advice of his staff and American advisers, he massed more than fifty divisions around Hsuchang to prevent Communist forces from dominating central China. The result was a complete disaster in which 550,000 Nationalist soldiers were lost, an estimated 325,000 as prisoners.]
- 2022 July 11, Zixu Wang, Austin Ramzy, “Security Forces in China Attack Protesters Seeking Frozen Funds”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11, Business:
- The police in the Henan city of Xuchang said on Monday that they were investigating a criminal gang headed by a man named Lu Yi whom they say may have used Henan New Fortune Group to amass control of the rural banks, and used fictitious loans to illegally transfer funds.
Translations
prefecture-level city in central China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hsüchang or Hsü-ch’ang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 807, column 2: “Until 1913 called Hsüchow.”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3