Han-ch'uan

Hanchuan Hànchuān English thumb|Map including HAN-CH'UAN (HANCHWAN) zh 漢川 (Army Map Service AMS, 1953) Etymology From en cmn 漢川 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Han⁴-chʻuan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Hanchuan. en 1906 January R. T. Booth Medical and Surgical Notes https://archive.org/details/3522418_1905_1906/page/n310/ w:China Medical Missionary Journal XX 1 0366-6999 920383166 75 https://archive.org/details/3522418_1905_1906/page/n384/ I heard last week that he is able to take part in the physical drill which Mr. Helps has instituted for the boys at Han-ch‘uan, where he lives. en 1913 W. H. Jefferys James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen) https://archive.org/details/jamesaddisoningl00jeff/ Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society 1235490803 170 https://archive.org/details/jamesaddisoningl00jeff/page/170/ So much for the buildings. Now as to the workers and methods of work. I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin T’i and one in Han-ch’uan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead. en 1959 w:Ping-ti Ho Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 https://archive.org/details/studiesonpopulat00hebi/ w:Harvard University Press 59-12970 185605317 234 https://archive.org/details/studiesonpopulat00hebi/page/234/ Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the 1935 Yangtze flood Yangtze flood of 1935 some 73,000,000 mou of agricultural land were submerged and 14,000,000 people dislodged from their homes. There were no detailed reports on the actual loss of life, but Han-ch'uan county in Hupei was caught entirely unprepared and saw 220,000 of its entire population of 290,000 carried away by the waves. en 1989 w:William T. Rowe Dangerous Classes and Laboring Classes Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895 https://archive.org/details/hankowconflictco0000unse/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1541-6 89-31183 19352759 238 https://archive.org/details/hankowconflictco0000unse/page/238/ Another time a fleet of boats carrying some eighty northern Hupeh natives migrating to Anhwei tied up at a vacant pier claimed by Han-ch’uan natives, and when a boat of Han-ch’uan men showed up they initiated a fatal knife fight in defense of their turf. en Translations Hanchuan Further reading en 1952 Hanchwan or Han-ch’uan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 754 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/754/ 1