Meichuan

• Mei-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 梅川 (Méichuān).

Meichuan

1. A town in Wuxue, Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China‎, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277:

     AT 10:12, the bus crossed the Yangtze River, and Min jerked awake. She said aloud the name of every town we passed on the highway: Huangshi, Meichuan, Huangmei. “We’re almost there,” she said, her voice tight with excitement.

   • 2016 July 29, Natalie Mu, “Boy, 2, dies of heatstroke in central China mountains while looking for his grandmother”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 09 May 2022:

     The unattended boy was found missing when his grandmother returned to their home in Meichuan town in the city of Wuxue after working in the fields, having told the boy an hour before to stay at home and watch television, the ChuTian Metropolis Daily reported.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Meichuan.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Meichuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1942, column 3

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