Xiangzhou

• Hsiang-chou (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 香洲 (Xiāngzhōu).

Xiangzhou

1. A district of Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
   • 2002 February 23, Bei Ling, Andrea Huss, “Warming Up to China, Neglecting Democracy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 November 2010, Opinion‎:

     As President Bush addressed students at Qinghua University in Beijing on the 30th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon's momentous trip to China, where was the mention of the six Qinghua graduate students recently sentenced in southern China's Xiangzhou District Court, in Zhuhai City, for "utilizing an evil cult to sabotage legal enforcement"? All are practitioners of Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation movement that numbers its followers in the tens of thousands.

   • 2010, Nancy J. Rosenbloom, “The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900”, in Women in American History since 1880: A Documentary Reader‎, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:

     Heungshan (Xiangshan) District was renamed Chungshan (Zhongshan) District in 1925 in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who led the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the Republic of China. In 1965 the Wong Leung Do area separated from Chungshan District to become Doumen District. Today, Doumen District is a part of Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄州 (Xiāngzhōu).

Xiangzhou

1. A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
   • 2016 January 29, Editorial Office, “Chenghe Wickerwork”, in Hubei Provincial People's Government Official Web Portal‎, archived from the original on 30 July 2022‎:

     Chenghe wickerwork, also known as Xiangyang wickerwork, is a specialty of Chenghe town, Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang city, and a product with protected geographical indication in China. Chenghe is one of the top three wickerwork export bases in China.

   • 2021, Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu, A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 184:

     Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
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