Ocheng

See also: O-ch'eng

English

Proper noun

Ocheng

1. Alternative form of Echeng
   • 1938 October 23 [1938 October 22], “Rumors of Advance”, in Hong Kong Sunday Herald‎^[1], volume XII, number 764, sourced from Hankow, →OCLC, page 4, column 6:

     Japanese warships were said to have passed the boom at Hwangkang and Ocheng, 95 kilometres downstream below Hankow, and to be about to break the boom at Twanfeng, 70 kms. down river from Hankow.

   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, “The Middle Yangtze Plain”, in China's Changing Map‎^[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 157:

     Along the 60-mile railroad from the Tayeh iron mines to the Wuhan plant, another small integrated iron and steel complex, with a capacity of 100,000 to 200,000 tons, began to arise in 1958 at Ocheng. This hsien was actually raised to the status of municipality in 1960, but the level of development evidently did not justify such a high administrative level, and Ocheng was returned to hsien status in late 1961.

   • 1976, “Before and After the Defensive Battle of Anking”, in The Taiping Revolution [太平天国革命]‎^[3], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 115:

     His army arrived in the counties of Hsingkuo and Wuchang (present-day Ocheng) in June 1861, two months after they were due, when Chen Yu-cheng, unable to make contact with them, had already returned to northern Anhwei with his army.