Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xuzhou.
In early April 1938, for example, as the Japanese converged on the key transportation centre of Hsu-chou in northern Kiangsu, General Li Tsung-jen’s forces enticed the attackers into a trap in the walled town of T'ai-erh-chuang.
1986, John K. Fairbank, Albert Feuerwerker, editors, The Cambridge History of China, volume 13, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 5551 more example
Even in T'ang times, self-sufficient villages lacking economic contacts with the outside world had become sufficiently rare to make it worthwhile for the ninth-century poet Po Chü-i to record an instance of one such which he had seen in Hsu-chou, in what is now northwestern Kiangsu.
1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 208
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