Wuchuan
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Mandarin 吳川 / 吴川 (Wúchuān).
Proper noun
[edit]Wuchuan
- A county-level city in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
- 1981 December 12, Michael Weisskopf, “3,000 Chinese Veterans Said to Revolt in Protest Over Treatment”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2023[3]:
- Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong. […]
Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Wuchuan
- A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
- 2011 June 17, “Vestas says wins 49 MW turbine order in China”, in Mike Nesbit, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 2023-07-04, Green Business News[6]:
- The turbines would be installed at Dayuanshan wind farm in Wuchuan County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it said.
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[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Mandarin 婺川, later 務川/务川.
Proper noun
[edit]Wuchuan
- An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
- 2007, John E. Herman, “Mu'ege During the Yuan-Ming Transition”, in Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700 (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 293, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:
- In Chinese texts the first mention of the Tian of Sizhou occurs in 1107, when a native chief (tuqiu) named Tian Yougong submitted to Song rule; in 1118 he was named head of Sizhou prefecture.⁵¹
Throughout the Tang and Song dynasties the administrative seat of Sizhou prefecture was located near the present-day city of Wuchuan in northern Guizhou, yet the geopolitical jurisdiction of Sizhou extended far south, to the modern cities of Zhenyuan, Taijiang, and Cengong.
References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wuchwan or Wu-ch’uan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2107, column 3
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
- Wuchuan, Wu-ch'uan, Wu-chuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.