Suchow

English Etymology 1 From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 蘇州. Proper noun en historical en Suzhou, Jiangsu. en https://archive.org/details/landsoforient00chap/mode/2up 1888 The Lands of the Orient M. B. Chapman Southern Methodist Publishing House Nashville, Tenn. 127 https://archive.org/details/landsoforient00chap/page/126/mode/ The Chinese have a proverb which says: "Above is heaven; below are Su and Hang“ indicating the high esteem which they place upon the two cities, Suchow and Hangchow. Suchow is over twenty-three hundred years old, and has at present a population variously estimated at from three hundred thousand to half a million, though at one time it is said to have contained over a million. en 1907 W. A. P. Martin Province of Kiangsu The Awakening of China https://archive.org/details/awakeningofchina00martrich New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1040241795 25 https://archive.org/details/awakeningofchina00martrich/page/25/ The name of the province is derived from its two chief cities, Suchow and Nanking. Suchow, the Paris of the Far East, is coupled with Hangchow in a popular rhyme, which represents the two as paragon cities. en 1924-09-08 Bell The Chargé in China (Bell) to the Secretary of State https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1924v01/d320 United States Department of State Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1924, Volume I Military situation. Troops of Kiangsu and Chekiang at war on front from Liuho on Yangtze through Hwangtu and Kunshan on Nanking-Shanghai Railway to Suchow on east side of Taihu and at Ihsing on west side of Taihu. https://web.archive.org/web/20251007050335/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1924v01/d320 7 October 2025 en https://archive.org/details/chinesegardenhis00kesw/ 1978 0-8478-0193-4 The Chinese Garden Maggie Keswick Jencks Maggie Keswick RCS MediaGroup Rizzoli International Publications Hong Kong 16 https://archive.org/details/chinesegardenhis00kesw/page/16/ Like many other gardens the Wang Shih Yuan is situated in a large provincial town, in this case Suchow - a city of white-washed houses on a network of canals which has been celebrated since medieval times for its fine gardens. en 2014 w:Dana Stabenow Everything under the Heavens https://archive.org/details/everythingunderh0000stab/ Portland, Ore. Gere Donovan Press 9781495317019 870546189 64 https://archive.org/details/everythingunderh0000stab/page/64/ She smoothed one hand over the rubbled texture. She had bargained for the fabric herself, on their last trip to Suchow. Etymology 2 From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 徐州 Xúzhōu. Proper noun en obsolete _ or _ historical en Xuzhou, Jiangsu. en https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000unse/mode/2up 1934 China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People George Babock Cressey McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 178 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000unse/page/178/mode/ The construction of railroads has increased the importance of a number of cities, especially those located at the intersection of two lines. On the Tientsin-Pukow Railway this growth is illustrated by Tsinan, which is the junction for the railroad to Tsingtao, and Suchow, where this line meets the Lung-Hai Railway. en https://archive.org/details/chinashakesworld00beld/mode/2up 1949 Jack Belden China Shakes the World Harper & Brothers 420 https://archive.org/details/chinashakesworld00beld/page/420/mode/ This blow was delivered by Communist Generals Liu Po-cheng and Chen Yi around the town of Suchow, 180 miles north of Nanking in November and December 1948. It was to prove catastrophic.The city of Suchow, which lies at the junction of the east-west LunghiaLunghai Railway and the north-south Tientsin—Nanking Railway, is perhaps the most strategic city in modern-day China. Situated at the southern boundaries of the North China Plain, this town and the area adjacent to it form a kind of gateway between the north and the south. en 1981 A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory02taip/ II Modern China Press 8883106 291 https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory02taip/page/291/ When Manchuria fell to the Chinese Communists and the curtain was rising for the battle of Suchow and Pengpu early in November, 1948, Communist troops in the vicinity of Peiping and Tientsin were also stirring into action. References pn Etymology 3 From an irregular romanization of en cmn 敘州 Xùzhōu. Proper noun en obsolete _ or _ historical en Xuzhou, Sichuan. Etymology 4 From the en cmn - pronunciation of zh 肅州 Sùzhōu. Proper noun en Suzhou, Gansu. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79991/mode 1938 Sven Hedin F. H. Lyon The Silk Road George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Boston 159 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79991/page/n193/mode/ Our fellows were at base camp no. 70, waiting for help. Their food supplies would not last till the end of June. Again and again, orally and in writing, we had asked for lubricating oil for the convoy. We had still, at camp no. 70, enough petrol to enable three motor-lorries and the small car to cover a stretch of 930 miles—i.e. the distance from Korla to Suchow via Hami and Anhsi. en https://archive.org/details/pivotofasiasinki0000latt/mode/2up 1950 Owen Lattimore Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the Inner Asian frontiers of China and Russia Little, Brown and Company Boston 46 https://archive.org/details/pivotofasiasinki0000latt/page/46/mode/ In 1876 Tso Tsung-t’ang, a Chinese general from Hunan who had already done much to subdue the Taipings and prove himself loyal to the Manchu Imperial Court, was appointed commander in chief of the Sinkiang expedition. His second in command was Liu Ching-t’ang, who proved himself so able that later he became the first governor of Sinkiang. At Suchow in Kansu he accumulated a stock of grain large enough to last his army for two years. When his army reached Komul, Barkul, and Kuchengtze, it was divided into two groups. en https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00silv/mode/2up 1965 Robert Silverberg The Great Wall of China Chilton Books 48 https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00silv/page/48/mode/2up Beyond is the final stretch of the Ch'in Great Wall, dividing Kansu from Mongolia and enclosing the cities of Kanchow and Suchow. Twenty-three miles west of Suchow the Great Wall came to an end. Anagrams en chosuw hucows