Wuhsueh

See also: Wu-hsüeh

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Wuhsueh

  1. Alternative form of Wuxue
    • 1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, 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.
    • 2007, Rodney P. Carlisle, editor, Day by Day: The Thirties, volume 2, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 862:
      Jul. 1 [] Chinese planes attack Japanese ships and soldiers near Matang. Japanese planes raid Hukow and Wuhsueh. the next cities up the Yangtze. They also bomb Swatow, killing an estimated 300, including 200 schoolchildren.
    • 2009, Bill Porter, “No Work, No Food”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190:
      Tao-hsin’s hometown was the Yangtze port of Wuhsueh, twenty-five miles southwest of Huangmei.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuhsueh.
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