Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xuzhou.
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In the Huai River valley, which as we saw has yielded good evidence of Shang occupation in the Erh-li-kang phase, there have been a number of late Shang sites that have been reported on, but the only site of any notable scale is the residential-plus-burial site at Ch'iu-wan 丘灣, north of Hsü-chou in northwestern Kiangsu, discovered in 1959 and excavated in 1959, 1960, and 1965.
1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Shang Archaeology outside An-yang and Cheng-chou”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 311, 314
Origin
- Mandarin徐州
- EnglishHsü-chou
From Mandarin 徐州 (Xúzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü²-chou¹.
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