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Soochow Creek
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English
Proper noun
Soochow creek
en Suzhou Creek.
en 1968 SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 20 68-10064 1036882 345 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita20chic/page/345/ 2 Later this strip between the canal and the walls became the site of the French concession, while the American settlement (Hongkew) grew up on the northern side of the Soochow Creek.
en 2018 Paul French 17 City of Devils https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/ Picador (imprint) Picador 978-1-250-17059-0 2017060113 1050280429 102 https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/page/102/ The Japanese repeated their trick in Shanghai — they engineered an excuse, invented a supposed provocation, to justify attacks on the Chinese portions of Shanghai to the north of Soochow Creek — Chapei, Paoshan, and Kiangwan.
Descendants
fr Sou-Tchéou-Creek