Xuancheng

alternative Hsuanch'eng

1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.

   Trees and houses are submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.

   2016 July 21, Angela Fritz, “This year’s monsoon floods are the second-costliest on record in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2016, Capital Weather Gang

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   On that very day half of a large Japanese force was trapped and completely destroyed near Hsuancheng in East China, 80 miles south of Nanking. It was a Chinese victory which not only helped along the celebration of Double-Ten Day, but added the right note to another important event of the moment, the formal inauguration of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Republic.

   [1943 October 18, “Double-Ten Day”, in Pathfinder, Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Company, →OCLC, page 13, column 2

   Take Zhou Hua, the owner of a factory in Xuancheng, China, that months ago made children’s clothing. In February, as the coronavirus swept across his country, he rushed to buy mask machines and spent roughly $500,000 transforming his plant.

   2020 April 3, Jack Nicas, “It’s Bedlam in the Mask Market, as Profiteers Out-Hustle Good Samaritans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2020