Wuchang

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1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.

   Eleven soldiers were poisoned to death at Wuchang in Hupeh province last February 18. Two cooks were arrested on charges of deliberately poisoning the food.

   1973 July 1, “Discipline lax in Red army”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 25, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2

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   The Metropolis Vuchang, lieth on the Southern Shore of the River Kiang, though ſomewhat diſtant, but may be gone to in Boats along Channels, convey'd thither out of the River.

   [1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 517

   The tribute to be paid to England after the unfortunate war of 1840, the great unproductive consumption of opium, the drain of the precious metals by this trade, the destructive influence of foreign competition on native manufactures, the demoralized condition of the public administration, produced two things: the old taxation became more burdensome and harassing, and new taxation was added to the old. Thus in a decree of the Emperor, dated Peking, Jan 5 1853, we find orders given to the viceroys and governors of the southern provinces of Wuchang and Hanyang to remit and defer the payment of taxes, and especially not in any case to exact more than the regular amount; for otherwise, says the decree, “how will the poor people be able to bear it?” And “Thus, perhaps,” continues the Emperor, “will my people, in a period of general hardship and distress, be exempted from the evils of being pursued and worried by the tax-gatherer.” Such language as this, and such concessions we remember to have heard from Austria, the China of Germany, in 1848.

   1853 June 14, Karl Marx, “Revolution in China and in Europe”, in New-York Daily Tribune, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020, page 17

   Yochow fell to the Nationalists August 22. Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China. Before he arrived at Hankow, however, the Nationalists had penetrated the province and were advancing on Wuchang, sister-city of Hankow.

   1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 55

   Responsible comrades of the provincial and municipal CCP committees, army units stationed in Wuhan, members of the CCP and revolutionary masses have gone to Chairman Mao's old residence and the site of the Central Peasant's Movement Training School founded by Chairman Mao in Wuchang, to mourn the death of Chairman Mao, the great leader and teacher.

   1976 September 16 [1976 September 15], “Mourning at Mao's Old Residence in Hupeh”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 181, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 6

   By 1911, there were rumours of revolution, and Stursberg was worried by reports that Foochow was in the hands of revolutionaries. A mutiny of the troops in Wuchang on October 10 had spread to city after city.

   2002, Peter Stursberg, No Foreign Bones in China, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 92

2. Former name of Ezhou, a city in eastern Hubei in China.