Xiangcheng

alternative Hsiang-ch'eng

1. A district of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

alternative Hsiang-ch'eng

1. A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
2. A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.

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   Two 1,800-year-old tombs, one of them in a rare architectural style, have recently been unearthed in Honan province, Central China. Many well-preserved stone reliefs, murals, calligraphy and funeral objects were found in the two tombs. Of great interest to archæologists is a tomb in Hsiangcheng county which was built in 132 BC during the Han dynasty (206 BC—220 AD).

   [1964 January, “Tombs 1,800-Year-Old”, in Eastern Horizon, volume III, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 1

alternative Hsiang-ch'eng

1. A county-level city of Zhoukou, Henan, China.

   In Xiangcheng city, Henan province, site of a huge monosodium glutamate plant, factories were not connected to the waste water treatment plant.

   2007 July 11, “China hits back at defiant polluters”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2022, Latest Crisis

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   In 1863, when Chang Tsung-yü was rebuilding the Nien's main force after the fall of Chih-ho, he regarded Honan as the major source for the procurement of horses. When he passed Hsiang-ch'eng (項城), he captured many people who were ransomed by payment in horses.

   [1954, Siang-tseh Chiang, “The Organization of the Nien”, in The Nien Rebellion (Far Eastern and Russian Institute Publications on Asia), number 2, Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62