Soochow Creek

A form of Suzhou Creek — A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. datedDated form of Suzhou Creek.

    Later this strip between the canal and the walls became the site of the French concession, while the American settlement (Hongkew) grew up on the northern side of the Soochow Creek.

    1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 345, column 2
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    The Japanese repeated their trick in Shanghai — they engineered an excuse, invented a supposed provocation, to justify attacks on the Chinese portions of Shanghai to the north of Soochow Creek — Chapei, Paoshan, and Kiangwan.

    2018, Paul French, chapter 17, in City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102
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