1912 February, “Famine Notes”, in The Chinese Recorder[1], volume XLIII, number 2, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 95:
The Committee reports that in consequence of the combined effects of the war and famine added to flood an amount of destitution exists among the population in the Wuhan region which is without parallel in the memory of foreign residents. Now that the refugees are returning to Hankow there is a demand for building materials, clothing and food stuffs.
1956, Henry Wei, “The Eclipse of Soviet Influence in China”, in China and Soviet Russia, page 64:
Two important resolutions were also adopted. One demanded the recall from political exile of Wang Ching-wei. The other called for the removal of the Nationalist capital from Canton to Wuhan. These resolutions were no sooner adopted than carried out. Thus an invitation was sent to Wang Ching-wei to come back and participate in the government; and in the second week of December the transfer of the capital to Wuhan was effected.
Yet charges that Wuhan was run like an independent kingdom contained an element of truth. Firmly entrenched in Wuhan for more than ten years, the PLA had become accustomed to acting independently.
1973 March 4, “Starving farmers given jail terms”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XIV, number 8, Taipei, page 3:
More than 30 persons, most of them farmers on the verge of starving to death, were convicted of "counter-revolutionary" charges at kangaroo court in Wuhan and given sentences ranging from two to 12 years, it was reported from Hongkong February 25. . . . Wuhan is the collective name of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han rivers in Hupei province, central China. Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said. Others were charged with breaking into a Communist granary in Wuhan, it said.
Reassignment can rekindle the yearning for city life in UYs who have spent many years in the villages. A case in point is that of a young woman who settled in Ch’ien-chiang county, Hupei, in 1965, having come from Wuhan. She did well, joined the CCP in 1966, and became YCL branch secretary.
2008, “Anti-French rallies across China”, in BBC[5]:
Pictures from the central city of Wuhan showed large crowds congregating outside a Carrefour supermarket.
2011 January 28, “Wuhan University”, in China Daily[6], archived from the original on 15 July 2011[7]:
Wuhan University is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, and known as "the thoroughfare leading to nine provinces".
2012, Mark Jacob, “Chicago is all over the place”, in Chicago Tribune[8]:
"The Chicago of China" By 1900, the Yangtze River boom town of Hankau was "the Chicago of China" — or, according to Collier's magazine, "the St. Louis and Chicago of China." Hankau is now part of the city of Wuhan, which has inherited the "Chicago of China" nickname.
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2020 March 28, Kathryn Eastburn, “Former Galveston teachers locked down in Shanghai”, in The Daily News (Galveston County)[9]:
The exponential growth of the virus in Wuhan didn’t pass on to other Chinese cities because of the strict lockdown, and Hampton-Riddle fears, based on what she’s read and heard, that the United States will have “many Wuhans across the country.”
