Han-ch'uan

See also: Hanchuan, and Hànchuān

English

Map including HAN-CH'UAN (HANCHWAN) 漢川 (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

From Mandarin 漢川／汉川 (Hànchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Han⁴-chʻuan¹.

Proper noun

Han-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Hanchuan
   • 1906 January, R. T. Booth, “Medical and Surgical Notes”, in China Medical Missionary Journal‎^[1], volume XX, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75:

     I heard last week that he is able to take part in the physical drill which Mr. Helps has instituted for the boys at Han-ch‘uan, where he lives.

   • 1913, W. H. Jefferys, James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen)‎^[2], Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 170:

     So much for the buildings. Now as to the workers and methods of work. I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin T’i and one in Han-ch’uan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead.

   • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234:

     Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the Yangtze flood of 1935 some 73,000,000 mou of agricultural land were submerged and 14,000,000 people dislodged from their homes. There were no detailed reports on the actual loss of life, but Han-ch'uan county in Hupei was caught entirely unprepared and saw 220,000 of its entire population of 290,000 carried away by the waves.

   • 1989, William T. Rowe, “Dangerous Classes and Laboring Classes”, in Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895‎^[4], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

     Another time a fleet of boats carrying some eighty northern Hupeh natives migrating to Anhwei tied up at a vacant pier claimed by Han-ch’uan natives, and when a boat of Han-ch’uan men showed up they initiated a fatal knife fight in defense of their turf.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-ch'uan.

Translations

Hanchuan — see Hanchuan

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hanchwan or Han-ch’uan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 754, column 1