Wuchang

See also: wúcháng, Wǔchāng, Wu-chang, and Wu-ch'ang

English

Alternative forms

• Ou-tchang, Voutchang
• Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 武昌 (Wǔchāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹchängʹ

Proper noun

Wuchang

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 1853 June 14, Karl Marx, “Revolution in China and in Europe”, in New-York Daily Tribune‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 November 2020, page 17:

     The tribute to be paid to England after the unfortunate war of 1840, the great unproductive consumption of opium, the drain of the precious metals by this trade, the destructive influence of foreign competition on native manufactures, the demoralized condition of the public administration, produced two things: the old taxation became more burdensome and harassing, and new taxation was added to the old. Thus in a decree of the Emperor, dated Peking, Jan 5 1853, we find orders given to the viceroys and governors of the southern provinces of Wuchang and Hanyang to remit and defer the payment of taxes, and especially not in any case to exact more than the regular amount; for otherwise, says the decree, “how will the poor people be able to bear it?” And “Thus, perhaps,” continues the Emperor, “will my people, in a period of general hardship and distress, be exempted from the evils of being pursued and worried by the tax-gatherer.” Such language as this, and such concessions we remember to have heard from Austria, the China of Germany, in 1848.

   • 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 55:

     Yochow fell to the Nationalists August 22. Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China. Before he arrived at Hankow, however, the Nationalists had penetrated the province and were advancing on Wuchang, sister-city of Hankow.

   • 1973 July 1, “Discipline lax in Red army”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIV, number 25, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     Eleven soldiers were poisoned to death at Wuchang in Hupeh province last February 18. Two cooks were arrested on charges of deliberately poisoning the food.

   • 2002, Peter Stursberg, No Foreign Bones in China‎^[4], University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     By 1911, there were rumours of revolution, and Stursberg was worried by reports that Foochow was in the hands of revolutionaries. A mutiny of the troops in Wuchang on October 10 had spread to city after city.

   • 2021 July 21, Ralph Litzinger, Yanping Ni, “Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic”, in China Information‎^[5], volume 35, number 3, →DOI, page 347:

     The Wuchang mobile cabin hospital, built in the Hongshan Stadium in Wuhan’s Wuchang District, was completed within 29 hours; the state media championed this as a sign of ‘Chinese speed’ or the ‘Chinese experience’.

   • 2021 November 18, Carl Zimmer, Benjamin Mueller, Chris Buckley, “First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-18, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎^[7]:

     The video indicates that Mr. Chen is a 41-year-old who worked in a company’s finance office and never went to the Huanan market. Official reports said that he lived in the Wuchang district in Wuhan, miles from the market.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuchang.
2. Former name of Ezhou, a city in eastern Hubei in China.

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武昌 (zh) (Wǔchāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3493, column 3
• Wuchang, Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Changwu