O-ch'eng

English

Map including O-CHʻENG (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 鄂城 (Èchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: O⁴-chʻêng².

Proper noun

O-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Echeng
   • 1978, Benedict Stavis, The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China‎^[1], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:

     To gather information on agricultural mechanization in general and on the question of displacement of labor in densely populated areas in particular, Hsing Nan and others conducted a five-month investigation during late 1963 and early 1964. The tour included visits to regions of extensive cultivation in Heilungkiang, Liaoning (Fushin County), Inner Mongolia, and Peking. The investigation also examined mechanization of irrigation and processing in Hupeh (Hsinchou County and O-ch'eng County, both in the densely populated lakes region east and northeast of Wuhan), Hunan (Hoyang County), Kwangtung (Nanhai and Tungkuan counties, both fairly near Canton in the Pearl River Delta), and Kwangsi. Roughly half of Hsiang Nan's report was devoted to proving that mechanization was a proper policy in these densely populated areas.

   • 1987, Maxwell K. Hearn, Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art‎^[2], New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:

     In this example, the bird is decorated with comma-like projections, an incised pattern of scales, and S-shaped spirals. In addition to similar pieces identified by Karlbeck as coming from Shou-hsien (see especially pl. 12:1-5), a related piece has been excavated from a Ch'u tomb of mid-Warring States date located near O-ch'eng, Hupeh (se K'ao ku 1978/4, pl. 8:5)

   • 1998, Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China‎^[3], volume 8, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 420:

     Hu-kuang Wu-ch’ang during the Ming can therefore refer to both the Wu-ch’ang county seat (modem O-ch’eng city), as well as the Wu-ch’ang prefecture seat, which functioned concurrently as the seat of Chiang-hsia county (the modem Wu-ch’ang part of Wu-han).

Translations

Echeng — see Echeng

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Ocheng or O-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1364, column 1
• O-ch'eng at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Cheong