Han-ch'uan

So much for the buildings. Now as to the workers and methods of work. I have at present only two evangelists engaged in evangelistic work-one working in Hsin T’i and one in Han-ch’uan with Rev. Mr. Nieh. The others have all been dropped or put to school-teaching, and two are dead.

1913, W. H. Jefferys, James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen), Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 170

Four yeas later the same committee estimated that during the Yangtze flood of 1935 some 73,000,000 mou of agricultural land were submerged and 14,000,000 people dislodged from their homes. There were no detailed reports on the actual loss of life, but Han-ch'uan county in Hupei was caught entirely unprepared and saw 220,000 of its entire population of 290,000 carried away by the waves.

1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234

Another time a fleet of boats carrying some eighty northern Hupeh natives migrating to Anhwei tied up at a vacant pier claimed by Han-ch’uan natives, and when a boat of Han-ch’uan men showed up they initiated a fatal knife fight in defense of their turf.

1989, William T. Rowe, “Dangerous Classes and Laboring Classes”, in Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238