Zhongxiang

alternative Chungsiang · alternative Chung-hsiang · alternative Chunghsiang

1. A county-level city of Jingmen, Hubei, China.

   The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu. THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.

   [1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99

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   Days after dozens of Hubei teachers were attacked by angry students whose attempts at cheating on China’s highly competitive national college entrance exam were foiled, the nation is struggling to understand what exactly went wrong.[…] The attack happened on Saturday afternoon outside a school in Hubei’s Zhongxiang city. After the exam, students besieged teachers who had reportedly imposed strict measures and stopped students from cheating.

   2013 June 12, Amy Li, “China grapples with attacks on teachers after cheating halted on college exam”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2013, News China

   In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei.[…] She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.

   2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2017, Asia Pacific