Meanings
- datedDated form of Longzhou.
It was my luck to reach Lungchow just a day or two after the departure of the little steamer that came up from Nanning every week or two.
1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, →OCLC, page 3552 more examples
Lungchow.—Farther west than Nanning, and situated on the " Left River," a tributary of the "West River, is Lungchow, opened as a treaty port in 1887, after the Franco-Chinese War. It has not yet been connected with Hanoi by rail, as intended, on account of the reluctance of the Chinese to give the French a foothold in KWANGSI. The terminus of the railway is over the border near Lang- son, but a road connects with Lungchow, 35 miles away.
1907, The Chinese Empire, London: Morgan & Scott, →OCLC, →OL, page 278One unit was unexpectedly attacked in early December by local Chinese and Viet-Minh Communists from the north and the south at P'ingmeng and P'ingerhkuan (a Chinese border town about 40 miles from Lungchow), and was wiped out.
1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202
Origin
From Mandarin 龍州／龙州 (Lóngzhōu).
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