Waichow

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Cantonese 惠州 (wai⁶ zau¹).

Proper noun

Waichow

1. (dated) Synonym of Huizhou: the Cantonese-derived name
   • 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 46:

     With Waichow subdued and the enemy troops in the entire area surrendering or in headlong flight, Chiang struck at another malcontent general and captured the coastal city of Swatow.

   • 1949 August 31, “Reds Advancing Irresistibly—KMT Troops Harassed by Guerillas”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[3], page 7:

     Chinese reports reaching here said 3,000 guerillas had captured the town of Lungmen, 70 miles north-east of Canton. Other light Communist forces were active at Waichow, 70 miles east of Canton and 45 miles from the Hong Kong border.

   • 1969, Robert Payne, “Sun Yat-sen”, in Chiang Kai-shek‎^[4], New York: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34:

     Although he saw himself as a revolutionary, he never led a successful revolutionary uprising. He organized a revolt which broke out on October 10, 1900, in Waichow, close to Hongkong. His intention after capturing Waichow was to work his way through the province of Fukien along the coast in the hope of receiving help from Japanese friends in Formosa; but the help did not come, and though there were some successful skirmishes, the revolt was abandoned two weeks later.

   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: National and Regional Development, 1949-71‎^[5], completely revised edition, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 187:

     Since the late 1950’s, other cities have been established inland, either on the site of resource developments, as Mowming, or as subregional centers, as Shiuhing for the lower Si Kiang and Waichow for the lower Tung Kiang.

   • 1989, Chu-yuan Cheng, editor, Sun Yat-sen's Doctrine in the Modern World‎^[6], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     However, these many disappointments did not deter Sun Yat-sen. In October his supporters, augmented by secret society fighters and desperate peasants, staged a surprisingly strong campaign in the Waichow region of eastern Kwangtung.

   • 2020 April 18, Jason Wordie, “When poultry feathers and pig bristles were big business in Hong Kong”, in South China Morning Post‎^[7], archived from the original on 10 March 2023, Opinion:

     Feather dusters were one local export; the long neck feathers of yellow-skinned Waichow cockerels being favoured.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Waichow.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1330, column 2: “Sometimes spelled Waichow.”