Wu-chiang

English

Etymology

The Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 吳江／吴江 (Wújiāng).

Proper noun

Wu-chiang

(dated) Alternative form of Wujiang
- 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 18–19:
  What is not mentioned in the cases of Ch'ang-shu and Ning-po is clearly explained in the history of Wu-chiang county in southern Kiangsu whose population may be seen in Table 7.[...]While Ch'ang-shu and Wu-chiang represented a minority of the localities in the southeast registering a mildly increasing or stationary population, most of the available late Ming southeastern local histories registered a steady decline.
- 1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[2], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220:
  The division of hsien cities, as opposed to sheng or fu cities, into two administrative units was unique to Kiangsu. One example is Wu-chiang hsien city....An exceptional example of flourishing nonadministrative cities was the above-mentioned Wu-chiang hsien on the Grand Canal south of Soochow near the Chekiang border. After the settlements in Chen-tze hsien were split off from this hsien during the Yung-cheng reign, Wu-chiang was left with four chen, five shih (interchangeable with chi meaning market) and 175 villages for a population of 247,000....Also southeast in Wu-chiang hsien was Sheng-tze chen, formerly a village of 50 to 60 households in the early Ming period, which first became a shih owing to trade in silk thread and later was reputed to have increased its population a hundred times, becoming the largest chen in the hsien.
- 1976, Shih Min-Hsiung, The Silk Industry in Chʻing China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
  A good example was Sheng-tse, a town lying sixty-five li [or about 22 miles] southeast of the county city of Wu-chiang in Soochow prefecture.