Hanchung

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 漢中／汉中 (Hànzhōng).

Proper noun

Hanchung

1. Alternative form of Hanzhong.
   • 1901, Clive Bigham, A Year in China, 1899-1900‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co, Ltd., page 139:

     From the town of Hanchung a track leads in a north-easterly direction over the Tsingling Mountains to Sianfu, but the regular route bears back slightly and goes N.N.W. along the Kansu border, until it eventually strikes the Wei Valley and enters Northern China.

   • 1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People‎^[2], McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 276:

     This upper valley of the Han resembles the Red Basin of Szechwan in miniature and is rich and densely populated. If the city of Hanchung be taken as the equivalent of Chengtu, then Hingan may correspond to Chungking and the gorges of the Han Kiang below this city may be likened in their rugged grandeur to those of the Yangtze.

   • 1945, George Hogg, “New Hinterland”, in I See a New China‎^[3], London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., →OCLC, pages 49–50:

     Returning over the mountains from Ankang in a snorting Russian truck that had been converted to burn local co-operatively made alcohol, I stayed for a time at Hanchung, in the centre of the rich basin that extends for sixty miles along the Han River in the heart of the Tsingling Mountains. In the time of the Three Kingdoms, Hanchung was the central battleground for triangular contests between North, South and East; today, being the junction of the Han River route through the mountains with the road from Chungking to Lanchow and Russia, it is a vital link in the struggle which North and South are carrying on against East.

   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map‎^[4], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:

     The Han Shui valley in the extreme south, with the subregional towns of Hanchung and Ankang, and the entire northern section of Shensi remain without rail transportation.

   • 2008, James MacManus, Ocean Devil‎^[5], Harper Perennial, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147:

     For his first job as Ocean Secretary, Hogg was sent 160 miles south of Baoji to a small co-operative in the village of Mien-hsien, near Hanchung.

Further reading

• “Hanchung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Hanchung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.