Wu-hsüeh

English

Map including 武穴 WU-HSÜEH (WUSÜEH) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu-hsüeh.

Proper noun

Wu-hsüeh

1. Alternative form of Wuxue
   • [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.

   • [1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎^[5], 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.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wu-hsüeh.

Translations

Wuxue — see Wuxue

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wusüeh or Wu-hsüeh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2109, column 1