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I-ch'ang
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Ichang
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thumb|Map including zh (東湖) 宜昌 I-CH'ANG (TUNG-HU) (en 1953 China 1:250,000 Army Map Service AMS 10552568)
Etymology
From en cmn 宜昌 en cmn-wadegiles -Yichang, Wade-Giles romanization I-ch’ang, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 237 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/237/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Yichang/I-ch'ang romanization: I²-chʻang¹.
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en 1904 C. D. Tenney zh:中國<t:The Chinese Empire> Geography of Asia https://archive.org/details/geographyofasia00tennrich/ New York w:MacMillan and Co 182639088 3 https://archive.org/details/geographyofasia00tennrich/page/3/ The Yang-tzŭ-chiang (zh 揚子江) is about 3,300 miles long ; it is navigable for large steamers for 600 miles to Hankow (zh 漢口) and for light-draught steamers 360 miles further to I-chʻang (zh 宜昌).Above I-chʻang there are rapid which are difficult to pass.
en https://archive.org/details/cu31924023085602/ 1911 Under Marching Orders Ethel Daniels Hubbard 3685797 75 River streamers soon connected Nanking with Hankow, four hundred miles beyond, and finally, small steamboats sailed triumphantly up stream to I-ch'ang. Beyond I-ch'ang were the fierce rapids of the upper Yang-tzŭ, where foreign enterprise gave way before simple Chinese ingenuity.
en 1988 Lyman P. Van Slyke Yangtze: Nature History and the River https://archive.org/details/yangtzenaturehis00vans/ w:Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 0-201-08894-0 88-3378 470719550 2528067M 20 https://archive.org/details/yangtzenaturehis00vans/page/20/ Just below Hsi-ling Gorge lies the small city of I-ch'ang, the first river port beyond the gorges.
en 2007 Ginger Gorham; Susan Rice Travel Perspectives https://archive.org/details/travel-perspectives/ 4th 978-1-4180-1649-4 2006025055 70866903 63 https://archive.org/details/travel-perspectives/page/63/ YangtzeeYangtze River Gorges, People's Republic of China. These gorges are most notable between I-chʻang and Feng-chieh, with cliffs 1,000 feet (320 meters) high.
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