Ch'i-ch'un

Hung-jen’s temple is frequently referred to as Huang-mei, after the district in which it was located. It is in present-day Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh.

1967, Philip Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3

General Wang's army was based at Ch'i-ch'un, in modern Hupeh, just north of the Yangtze, some hundred miles down river from the next and more important point in the Sui deployment, Han-k'ou, where the Han River enters the Yangtze.

1978, Arthur F. Wright, The Sui Dynasty, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143

Tu Ts'ao was appointed Prefect of Ch'i-chou 蘄州 (present-day Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春 in Hu-pei Province), and Tu Mu and Yi accompanied Ts'ao to Ch'i-chou, and then Tu Mu returned to the capital.

1988 December, Wen-kai Kung (龔文凱), “The Official Biography of Tu Mu (803-852) in the Old T'ang History”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review, volume XXIX, number 4, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95

The Mongols invaded Szechuan in 1236, and Ch’in fled to the east, where he first became a vice-administrator (t’ung-p’an) in Ch’i-chou prefecture (now Ch’i-ch’un in Hupeh province) and then governor of Ho-chou (now Ho-hsien in Anhwei province).

1991, Ho Peng-Yoke, “Ch’in Chiu-shao”, in Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians: Reference Biographies from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 481, column 2

The author of The Compendium of Materia Medica was Li Shih-chen (1518-93), a pioneering scholar in the field of medicinal research in the late Ming. A native of Ch’i-chou in Hukuang (modern Ch’i-ch’un in Hupei), Li Shih-chen achieved the first-degree hsiu-ts'ai in 1531, but gave up obtaining the second-degree chü-jen after three unsuccessful attempts between 1534 and 1540.

1992, Chun-shu Chang, Hsueh-lun Chang, “Crisis and Revolution in the Ming-Ch'ing Intellectual World: Li Yü's World in Historical Perspective”, in Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World, Paperback edition, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, published 1998, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 285–286