Hsiang-ch'eng
English
Proper noun
Hsiang-ch'eng
- Alternative form of Xiangcheng
- 1976, Chaves, Jonathan, Mei Yao-chʻen and the Development of Early Sung Poetry, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-40299, OCLC 906152066, OL 5211710M, 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.
- 2004, Wissing, Douglas A., Pioneer in Tibet, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 2003058230, OCLC 845602651, 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.
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