Hankow

English thumb|Pioneer Missionary in Hankow, China worshipped and was ordained here Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn 漢口 Hànkǒu. Proper noun en Hankou. en https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cZcbAQAAMAAJ&dq=Hankow&source=gbs_navlinks_s 1883 A Chronological Study of the Origin and Development of Steam Navigation George H. Preble L. R. Hamersly & Co. Philadelphia 225 In February, 1860, the Yang-tse was for the first time opened by treaty to the ships of other nations, and the “Scotland,” commanded by Captain A. D. Dundas, R. N., and belonging to W. S. Lindsay, an auxiliary screw steamship of 1,100 tons gross register, was the first foreign merchant vessel which loaded a cargo from Shanghai to Hankow, bringing back teas for transshipment to Europe and America; but it was not until 1863 that any English vessel loaded a cargo direct from Hankow for Great Britain. en 1922 w:Bertrand Russell The Problem of China https://archive.org/details/problemofchina00russ/ London w:George Allen & Unwin 470194205 7131502M 75 https://archive.org/details/problemofchina00russ/page/75/ Hankow, a very important Treaty Port, is almost exactly in the centre of China. North and South China are divided by the Yangtze; East and West China are divided by the route from Peking to Canton. These two dividing lines meet at Hankow, which has long been an important strategical point in Chinese history. From Peking to Hankow there is a railway, formerly Franco- Belgian, now owned by the Chinese Government. From Wuchang, opposite Hankow on the southern bank of the river, there is to be a railway to Canton, but at present it only runs half-way, to Changsha, also a Treaty Port. The completion of the railway, together with improved docks, will greatly increase the importance of Canton and diminish that of Hong-Kong. en http://www.newspapers.com/image/219146425/ 1942 REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH w:Petaluma Argus-Courier Petaluma, California 2 Besides engaging in regular evangelistic activity, Rev. Meyer taught for some time in the Chinese Lutheran Theological seminary in Hankow. From 1937 to 1940 he was acting superintendent of the Luthern orphanage at Enshih in southwest Hupeh. en 1968 HUPEH w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/ 11 68-10064 1036882 902 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita11chic/page/n935/ 1 The population is mostly concentrated in the eastern lowlands where the Han river joins the Yangtze at the great tri-city metropolis of Wu-han (q.v.). This major industrial and commercial centre had a population of 2,146,000 in 1957, with the heavier concentration in Hankow, the most important city in central China. The first bridge over the Yangtze, constructed there in 1956, permits through traffic from Peking to Canton. Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang. en 1974 Diana E. H. Russell D. E. H. Russell Rebellion, Revolution, and Armed Force https://archive.org/details/rebellionrevolut0000russ/ w:Academic Press 0-12-785745-1 74-7205 869935340 5046760M 111 https://archive.org/details/rebellionrevolut0000russ/page/111/ When he heard of this uprising, Mao Tse-tung immediately organized a small communist force where he was in Hankow. While estimates of its strength vary, O'Ballance indicates that "it was probably about 1000 armed men, some of whom were Nationalist troops from the Hankow garrison who had revolted ... [Ibid., italics added]." en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-10-31_17_43/ October 31, 1976 w:Madame Chiang Kai-shek Conversations with Mikhail Borodin Free China Weekly Supplement XVII 43 Taipei 1 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-10-31_17_43/page/n4/ In the winter of 1926 my mother, eldest sister, Madame K'ung and I left Shanghai for Hankow to visit our brother T.V. and our other sister. Hankow and Wuchang, the twin cities in eastern Central China, often shortened to the acronym Wuhan, made ever famous in Chinese history and folklore by the tales of the Three Kingdoms, are situated on the opposite banks of the Yangtze River. Wuchang in that year became the provisional situs of the Nationalist Government while Hankow was where most of the executive government offices were located. en 1991 Hans J. Van de Ven From Friend to Comrade: the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927 https://archive.org/details/fromfriendtocomr00vand/ w:University of California Press 0-520-07271-5 91-13571 1022575727 7709564M 112 https://archive.org/details/fromfriendtocomr00vand/page/112/ Several bang provided the labor for the Peking-Hankow Railroad. In the workshop in Jiang'an near Hankow, for instance, workers belonged either to the Hubei, Tianjin, or Guangdong bang.⁵⁹ en 2013 David Mayers FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis https://archive.org/details/fdrs-ambassadors-and-the-diplomacy-of-crisis/ w:Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03126-5 2012024352 801051015 98 https://archive.org/details/fdrs-ambassadors-and-the-diplomacy-of-crisis/page/98/ Ebullient and purposeful, Johnson rose quickly among the Foreign Service's small corps of China hands. His postings included Harbin, Mukden, Chongqing, and Hankow, and he served as assessor to the Mixed Court in Shanghai. en Further reading Anagrams en ahknow hakwon