Woosung

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 吳淞／吴淞 (Wúsōng).

Proper noun

Woosung

1. (obsolete or historical) Alternative spelling of Wusong
   • 1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator‎^[1], number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:

     Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.

   • 1904 August 26, North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[2], volume LXXIII, number 1933, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 455, column 3:

     THE C. M. S. Kwangtah, which arrived here last Friday from Hongkong reports: Left Hongkong at 7 p.m. on the 15th instant. Anchored in Amoy Harbour for shelter 13 hours. Anchored again at Matsu Island for 10 hours and arrived at Woosung on the 18th instant.

   • 1915 October 1, Charles Davis Jameson, “The Status of Chinese Railways”, in Railway Age Gazette‎^[3], volume 59, number 14, New York, page 602, column 1:

     In 1864, Sir McDonald Stephenson, an eminent British engineer, arrived in China to impress the advantages of railways on China, but his scheme was pigeonholed. The next scheme was the Woosung Railway, from Shanghai on the Huangpu river to Woosung at its mouth, a distance of 12 miles.

   • 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror‎^[4] (Fiction), Little, Brown and Company, published 2009, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300:

     The dashing lad — twenty-nine at the time — had used rockets to drive the Chinese off the hilltops of Tzekee and Segoan, used rockets again to drive them out of Chapoo, fought ashore at the Battle of Woosung, and returned to his expertise with rockets during the capture of Ching-Kiang-Fu.

Descendants

• French: Wousung