Hsu-chou

See also: Hsü-chou

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Hsu-chou

  1. Alternative form of Xuzhou
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, 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, 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.

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