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Chuchow
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English
Etymology 1
From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 10 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/10/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Chuchow ... ... zh 株州 Hunan ... ... zh 湖南 ... 27.50N 113.5 E of en cmn 株洲.
Pronunciation
jo͞oʹjōʹ
Proper noun
en Zhuzhou.
en 1920 w:Sun Yat-sen The International Development of China https://archive.org/details/internationaldev00suny/ Shanghai w:Commercial Press 4292171 23294212M 103 https://archive.org/details/internationaldev00suny/page/103/ From Kanchow it proceeds to Lungchuan, Yungning, and Lienhwa, where it crosses the Kiangsi border into Hunan. After that, it proceeds to Chuchow and Changsha, the capital of Hunan.
en 1964 zh:任育地<t:Jen Yu-ti> zh:中国地理概述<t:A Concise Geography of China> https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/ Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 799178199 57 https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/page/57/ The Chekiang-Kiangsi line starts from Hangchow in Chekiang and ends at Chuchow in Hunan on the Peking-Canton Railway; the Hunan-Kwangsi line starts from Hengyang in Hunan, also on the Peking-Canton line, and ends at Munankuan in Kwangsi.
en 1985 w:Steven W. Mosher Journey To The Forbidden China https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/ w:Collier Macmillan 0-02-921710-5 85-2610 1073326498 3022382M 157 https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/page/157/ From the map I judged that we had reached the Hunan city of Shinhwa. (The name meant, "Newness.") We did not stop, for the train was an express, bound for the city of Chuchow, and in a minute we reemerged into rice paddy.
Translations
Zhuzhou
References
Further reading
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en Quzhou.
en 1901 Native Account of the Situation The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China https://archive.org/details/boxerrisinghisto00shanuoft/ 2nd Shanghai Mercury, Ltd. 8951867 60 https://archive.org/details/boxerrisinghisto00shanuoft/page/60/ In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu.
en 1964 Carroll V. Glines The Preparation Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders https://archive.org/details/doolittlestokyor0000carr_d9l7/ w:D. Van Nostrand Company 300009380 38 https://archive.org/details/doolittlestokyor0000carr_d9l7/page/38/ After clearing the Japanese outside coastline a sufficient distance, a general westerly course will be set for one or more of the following airports in China: Chuchow, Chuchow (Lishui), Yushan and/or Chienou. Chuchow is about seventy miles inland and two hundred miles to the south southwest of Shanghai.
en 1982 May Grant Maxwell Getting on the Map Assignment in Chekiang: 71 Canadians in China, 1902-1954 https://archive.org/details/assignmentinchek0000maxw/ Scarborough, Ontario Scarboro Foreign Mission Society 0-9691173-0-2 10906381 22 https://archive.org/details/assignmentinchek0000maxw/page/22/ South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui — the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands. The priests and sisters, and also their thousands of supporters across English-speaking Canada — kept in touch with one another chiefly by the popular Scarboro publication China — soon became acquainted with Lishui/Chuchow and the names of numerous mission stations, among them Lungchuan, Sungyang, Pihu, Tsingtien and Dolu. In 1940 the adjoining region of Kinhwa was added to the Chuchow/Lishui area earlier entrusted to the Scarboro priests.