Han-ch'uan
See also: Hanchuan and Hànchuān
English
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Map including HAN-CH'UAN (HANCHWAN) 漢川 (AMS, 1953)
Etymology
From Mandarin 漢川/汉川 (Hànchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Han⁴-chʻuan¹.
Proper noun
Han-ch'uan
- Alternative form of Hanchuan
- 1906 January, R. T. Booth, “Medical and Surgical Notes”, in China Medical Missionary Journal, volume XX, number 1, ISSN 0366-6999, OCLC 920383166, page 75:
- 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.
- 1913, Jefferys, W. H., James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen), Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, OCLC 1235490803, 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 Tʻi and one in Han-chʻuan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead.
- 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, LCCN 59-12970, OCLC 185605317, page 234:
- Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-ch'uan.
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Translations
Hanchuan — see Hanchuan