Hanchung

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 漢中. Proper noun en Hanzhong. en https://archive.org/details/ayearinchina00mersgoog/mode/2up 1901 A Year in China, 1899-1900 Clive Bigham Macmillan and Co, Ltd. London 139 https://archive.org/details/ayearinchina00mersgoog/page/n206/mode/ From the town of Hanchung a track leads in a north-easterly direction over the Tsingling Mountains to Sianfu, but the regular route bears back slightly and goes N.N.W. along the Kansu border, until it eventually strikes the Wei Valley and enters Northern China. en https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/mode/2up 1934 China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People George Babock Cressey McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 276 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000unse/page/276/mode/ This upper valley of the Han resembles the Red Basin of Szechwan in miniature and is rich and densely populated. If the city of Hanchung be taken as the equivalent of Chengtu, then Hingan may correspond to Chungking and the gorges of the Han Kiang below this city may be likened in their rugged grandeur to those of the Yangtze. en 1945 George Hogg New Hinterland I See a New China https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507214/ London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 561107896 49–50 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507214/page/n48/ Returning over the mountains from Ankang in a snorting Russian truck that had been converted to burn local co-operatively made alcohol, I stayed for a time at Hanchung, in the centre of the rich basin that extends for sixty miles along the Han River in the heart of the Tsingling Mountains. In the time of the Three Kingdoms, Hanchung was the central battleground for triangular contests between North, South and East; today, being the junction of the Han River route through the mountains with the road from Chungking to Lanchow and Russia, it is a vital link in the struggle which North and South are carrying on against East. en 1972 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 230 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/230/ The Han Shui valley in the extreme south, with the subregional towns of Hanchung and Ankang, and the entire northern section of Shensi remain without rail transportation. en 2008 James MacManus Ocean Devil https://archive.org/details/oceandevillifele0000macm/ w:Harper Perennial 978-0-00-727075-0 182663117 147 https://archive.org/details/oceandevillifele0000macm/page/147/ For his first job as Ocean Secretary, Hogg was sent 160 miles south of Baoji to a small co-operative in the village of Mien-hsien, near Hanchung. Further reading