Meaning of Wuchuan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
2. A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
3. An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.

Examples

“Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong.[…] Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.”

“Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits comprising one the principal bodies of the irregular forces invading Suiyuan, surrender to Chinese government forces near Wuchuan after a mutiny against their leader, Wang Ying.”

“In the course of the struggle to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, (Ting Hsiu-chen) and (Ting Hsiu-mei), sisters in the (Tuchengtzu) brigade of (Miaotung) commune in Wuchuan County, have displayed their revolutionary spirit of daring to go against the tide, upheld the policy of late marriage, returned their betrothal presents, and are determined to thoroughly break with the old traditional ideas.”

“The turbines would be installed at Dayuanshan wind farm in Wuchuan County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it said.”

“In Chinese texts the first mention of the Tian of Sizhou occurs in 1107, when a native chief (tuqiu) named Tian Yougong submitted to Song rule; in 1118 he was named head of Sizhou prefecture.⁵¹ Throughout the Tang and Song dynasties the administrative seat of Sizhou prefecture was located near the present-day city of Wuchuan in northern Guizhou, yet the geopolitical jurisdiction of Sizhou extended far south, to the modern cities of Zhenyuan, Taijiang, and Cengong.”

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