Sui-chou

English

Map including SUI-CHOU (SUIZHOU) (DMA, 1985)

Etymology

From Mandarin 隨州／随州 (Suízhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Sui²-chou¹.

Proper noun

Sui-chou

1. Alternative form of Suizhou
   • 1971, Masterpieces of Chinese Album Painting in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, →OCLC, page 129:

     Mou Chung-fu's dates are not known, but he was a native of Sui-chou in Hupei.

   • 1975, Wu-chi Liu, Irving Yucheng Lo, editors, Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry‎^[1], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 555:

     Her served as Censor and held other provincial posts under Emperors Hsüan-tsung and Su-tsung; later involved in a legal suit, he was banished as Marshal of Mu-chou, in Chekiang, and then as Censor of Sui-chou, in Hupeh.

   • 1984, Ronald C. Egan, The literary works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-72)‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     When Ou-yang Hsiu was four years old his father died. His mother then took the boy with her to join the household of his uncle Ou-yang Yeh in Sui-chou (on the Han River in modern Hupeh). Ou-yang Hsiu remained there until he was twenty-one years old. Later in life, he characterized Sui-chou as a crude and uncultured place.

   • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare‎^[3], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30:

     Ditches continued to be employed as the sole defensive measure at many sites even after wall building began to emerge. For example, an immense ditch varying between 15 and 20 meters in width and marked by depths of 2.5 to 3.8 meters has recently been discovered in Hubei near Sui-chou.

Translations

Suizhou — see Suizhou