Soochow

English thumb|Map including WU-HSIEN (SOOCHOW) (WALLED) (Army Map Service AMS, 1955) Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 蘇州 Sūzhōu. Proper noun en dated en Suzhou. en https://archive.org/details/chinaunderempres01blan/ 1910 China Under the Empress Dowager John Otway Percy Bland J. O. P. Bland; Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet E. Backhouse w:J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia 359 An official, one of the many provincial deputies charged with the carrying of tribute to the Court at Hsi-an, returning thence to his post at Soochow, sent to a friend at Peking a detailed description of the life of the Court in exile, from which the following extracts are taken. en https://archive.org/details/spatialeconomyof0000wuyu/ 1967 The Spatial Economy of Communist China Yuan-li Wu w:Frederick A. Praeger Publishers 145 For our purpose new economic centers are defined as those vigorously developed in Communist China prior to the economic crisis in 1960-62, but not necessarily completely new industrial centers. They consist of 26 cities included in categories A-II and B-II in Table 4-8 and B2, B3, B4, B5, and B8 in Table 4-3 (excluding Soochow and Kuei-yang, which are predominantly nonindustrial). en https://archive.org/details/prologuetochines0000lewi/ 1976 Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907 Charlton M. Lewis 0-674-71441-5 16 By the middle of June there had been additional disturbances at Chinkiang, Tan-yang, Wu-hsi and Soochow along the Grand Canal, and at Wu-hsueh, Kiukiang and Sha-shih on the Yangtze. en 4 October 1977 1 October 1977 Socialist Emulation in Agriculture Progresses Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 192 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113136166&seq=75 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: National Affairs E 11, E 12 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924113136166&seq=113 Several thousand people from rice producing areas throughout the country came to visit the high yielding units in Soochow Prefecture every day.In Wuchiang County which has a rural population of 600,000, the 23 communes are divided into five groups. en December 26, 1982 Charlotte Summer Tung Chih festival a time for rejoicing https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-12-26_23_51/ Free China Weekly zh 自由中國週報 Taipei XXIII 51 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-12-26_23_51/page/n1/ In Soochow of Kiangsu Province, people burned incense at daybreak. During the day, stores were closed and people ate and drank, as if they were celebrating the New Year. en 2015 Xiao Bai Chenxin Jiang French Concession https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/ w:Harper Collins Publishers 978-0-06-231345-4 919478151 79 https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/page/79/ He could always just leave on the next train to Nanking, or the little steamboat to Soochow. Derived terms en Soochownese (demonym, dialect) References pn Anagrams en chooosw hooscow