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Hsiang-ch'eng
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Hsiang-ch'eng
en Xiangcheng.
en 1976 w:Jonathan Chaves Mei Yao-chʻen and the Development of Early Sung Poetry https://archive.org/details/meiyaochendevelo0000chav/ w:Columbia University Press 0-231-03965-4 75-40299 906152066 5211710M 167 https://archive.org/details/meiyaochendevelo0000chav/page/167/ Kakehi suggests that Mei's poem was written in the autumn of 1040, when, after leaving his post as Magistrate of Hsiang-ch'eng, he was traveling in the Honan area. The Ju River flows south of Hsiang-ch'eng in central Honan, and K'un-yang lies still further south.
en 2004 Douglas A. Wissing Pioneer in Tibet https://archive.org/details/pioneerintibet00wiss/ w:Palgrave Macmillan 1-4039-6328-2 2003058230 845602651 86 https://archive.org/details/pioneerintibet00wiss/page/86/ Many monks who survived the Chinese retribution joined the militant monks at the Sampiling monastery, a vast walled compound that sprawled on a remote tableland deep in the Hsiang-ch'eng. Chao invaded the Hsiang-ch'eng in January 1906 with a troop of two thousand seasoned soldiers trained in Western-style military methods.