Hsu-chou

See also: Hsü-chou

English

Proper noun

Hsu-chou

1. Alternative form of Xuzhou
   • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[1], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208:

     Even in T'ang times, self-sufficient villages lacking economic contacts with the outside world had become sufficiently rare to make it worthwhile for the ninth-century poet Po Chü-i to record an instance of one such which he had seen in Hsu-chou, in what is now northwestern Kiangsu.

   • 1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, editors, The Cambridge History of China‎^[2], volume 13, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 555:

     In early April 1938, for example, as the Japanese converged on the key transportation centre of Hsu-chou in northern Kiangsu, General Li Tsung-jen’s forces enticed the attackers into a trap in the walled town of T'ai-erh-chuang.

Translations

Xuzhou — see Xuzhou

Further reading

• “Hsu-chou, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.