Citations:Wu-hsüeh

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English citations of Wu-hsüeh

Map including 武穴 WU-HSÜEH (WUSÜEH) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC
  • [1901, Arthur Henderson Smith, China in Convulsion[1], volume I, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 83:
    Four days later a still more violent and unexpected attack was made at Wu Hsüeh, a city twenty-five miles above Chiu Chiang, on the Yangtze.]
  • 1904, William Woodville Rockhill, Treaties and Conventions with Or Concerning China and Korea, 1894-1904[2], →OCLC, page 416:
    At Tan-yang Hsien, in the province of Kiang-su, and at Wu-hsüeh, in the province of Hu-peh, similar outrages have been committed on missionary establishments there, and it is now necessary that the miscreants should be arrested and unrelenting measures taken in good time to provide against further outrages of this kind.
  • [1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung[3], volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 388:
    On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan.]
  • 1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, “The Riots of 1891: A Pattern Set”, in Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots 1891-1900[4], Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
    But on June 5 after rioters at Wu-hsüeh killed two British subjects the riots became the foremost concern of British policy in China.
  • 1972, Charlton M. Lewis, “Some Notes on the Ko-lao Hui in Late Ch’ing China”, in Jean Chesneaux, editor, Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840-1950[5], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
    Taken as a whole, however, the riots were anti-foreign, not anti-official. This was dramatically true in the Wu-hsüeh riot of June 5, where two foreigners were killed by an angry mob,⁴⁹ and the I-ch’ang riot of September 2, where responsible officials failed to take action and the collusion of important persons was widely suspected.⁵⁰
  • [1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907[6], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
    We can surmise that Liu K’un-i’s suppression of the Ko-lao hui finally forced the agitators back into Hupeh, where they helped to instigate the riot at Wu-hsueh on June 5; the riot got out of hand (two foreigners were killed) and the agitators were arrested at Wuchang on June 12.]
  • [2009, Bill Porter, “No Work, No Food”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China[7], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190:
    Tao-hsin’s hometown was the Yangtze port of Wuhsueh, twenty-five miles southwest of Huangmei.]