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Hsu-ch'ang
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Hsü-ch'ang
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Etymology
From en cmn 許昌 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsü³-chʻang¹.Xuchang, Wade-Giles romanization Hsü-ch’ang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
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en Xuchang.
en 1979 Meishi Tsai Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949–1974: An Annotated Bibliography https://archive.org/details/contemporarychin00tsai/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-16681-7 78-15643 310585506 150 https://archive.org/details/contemporarychin00tsai/page/150/ Three of the six short stories are written by K'o Kang: c) "Yen-ts'ao hu-hu" zh 烟草糊糊 (Tobacco). Tobacco is the main crop of the people of Hsu-ch'ang in Honan. The wicked tobacco dealer and the Americans deceive a planter and his family. The planter and his wife commit suicide.
en 1998 James. A. Scherer Gerald H. Anderson August William Edwins Edwins, August W(illiam) Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_p1w3/ 0-02-864604-5 96-49922 243887072 196 https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_p1w3/page/196/ Moving to Hsu-ch’ang (Xuchang) in 1906, Edwins obtained a foothold in Loyang (Luoyang), Jiaxian, and other strategic centers, where land and property were purchased and groundwork was laid for future expansion. In 1910 the first nine converts were baptized in Hsu-ch’ang.
en 2007 Chun-shu Chang The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Nation, State, & imperialism https://books.google.com/books?id=WEaVpTvHEAYC I 978-0-472-11533-4 2006010072 65400237 19 First, his forces, including the Shang and their thirty-six allies, reached K'un-wu (of the Ssu clan in the modern Hsu-ch'ang area in Honan), a powerful subordinate state of the Hsia located just southwest of the Hsia capital and on the frontier between the Hsia and Shang;
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