Meaning of Huchow | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of Huzhou.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has seventy-two missionaries in China, counting the twenty- two wives and the three women who are employed as special teachers in our schools. Of the seventy-two, thirty-one live in Soochow, fifteen in Shanghai, eleven in Huchow, ten in Sungkiang, and five in Changchow. […] Canals connect Huchow with Soochow and also with Sungkiang and Shanghai, and the distance of eighty and one hundred miles can be covered by the launches in eight or ten hours.”

“By way of precaution Hsi Pao-t’ien was sent to the prefectures of Fukien and Kienchang (Kiangsi), and Pao Ch’ao in the direction of Huchow, directly across the lake from Soochow, while the emperor was asked to command the provinces of Fukien, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Hupeh, and Hunan to devise measures for their own defence.”

“Ch’en Ch’i-mei was indisputably the dominant figure, and he did much to shape the course of the Shanghai Revolution. He was the son of a merchant of modest means from Huchow, Chekiang. As a child he was apprenticed to a pawnshop in a neighboring town.”

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