Dongxihu

alternative Tunghsihu

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, formerly a farm.

   Li told us that the prisoners had been executed in the Dongxihu district of Wuhan, forty minutes from the hospital.

   1996, Harry Wu, George Vecsey, Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175

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   Picture showing a combine harvesting wheat at the 66-hectacre model wheat field of the Tung-hsi-hu Farm in Hupeh Province.

   [c. 1966, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINED BY CROP IMPROVEMENT IN CHINA, published 2003, page 17?

   On our third day in China, officials from the orphanage came by our hotel room with some documents, among them the certificate of abandonment: This is to certify that Wu Guyue, female, born on April 26, 1995, was found to be abandoned at the Xingou Middle School, Dongxihu District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, on September 16, 1995. She was sent to our court by the People’s Government of Xingou Town, Dongxihy^([sic – meaning Dongxihu]) District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, on September 16, 1995. Her innate parents couldn’t be found.

   2004, Adam Schwartz, “A Story for Ancient Moon”, in Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 284

   I went anyway. Located in the Dongxihu district north of the Yangtze River, the racecourse is enormous, with a high, gray viewing stand and light green seats overlooking a sweeping track of 1,620 meters, or about 5,300 feet. It was also deserted. Doors labeled “Wuhan Jockey Club” were padlocked.

   2013 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Horse Racing Fans in China Betting on a Longshot”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023, Asia Pacific

   Dongxihu is the most comprehensive and diversified of the three main industrial zones in Wuhan; we chose it for this case study for this reason.

   2017, Jianyi Li, Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, “Manufacturing-led peri-urbanisation in central China: the case of Wuhan’s Dongxihu District”, in International Development Planning Review, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 177