Ichang

The affair at Tien-chiang appears to have been a local outbreak merely, and to have no proper connection with the real revolutionary movement, which seems to be unaccountably slow in spreading up the Yang-tsze from Ichang.

1911, W. H. Wilkinson, Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan (Correspondence Respecting the Disturbances in China), Harrison and Sons, page 51

My journey from Ichang to Wan-hsien occupied eleven days. We started on 20 February, reached Pu-tai K'ou (the boundary wbetween the provinces of Hupei and Szechwan) on the 6th, passed through the Fêng Hsiang gorge- perhaps the grandest of all the defiles- on the 8th, and beached ourselves under the walls of the city of Wan-hsien on the morning of the 12th. Here I paid off my hardy boatmen, and prepared for my overland journey to Ch'êng-tu.

1912, Esther Singleton, editor, China As Described by Great Writers, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 184

The situation at Hofeng is so serious and the possibility of recuring help is so slight that the leading people are leaving while it is possible to get away. Hofeng lies to the Southwest of Ichang among the mountains and has been looted three times already.

1929 November 9, “Increasing Unrest in Hupeh”, in North-China Herald, volume CLXXIII, number 3248, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 209, column 4

The need of a "regenerative idea" to strengthen or invigorate the Chinese Government occurred to others beside Stilwell. Faced with the passivity and deterioration of China and the loss of war potential which this meant to the Allies, such men were consumed with a desire to find some way to improve matters. Foreign loans could no longer help, reported Atcheson, but if the Central Government could retake Ichang and the hinterland leading to southern Hupeh and Hunan, the flow of cotton and produce would bring a reduction of 50 percent in the cost of food and clothing, as he had been told by the Minister of Economic Affairs, Wong Wen Hao, one of the finest and most respected of China's public officials.

1971, Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, New York: Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 355

Some 2,000 are reported to have escaped to Ichang alone, and finding no way to support themselves in the city, have engaged in group robberies. It was said the plundering of “Ichang Supplying and Sciling Cooperative” freighters traveling on the Hsi River was the work of these youths. The intelligence reports said situation is getting worse, since neither the Communist military units nor the militia in Ichang have taken any action.

1977 May 29, “Educated youths make trouble in big cities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 21, Taipei, →OCLC, page 3