Hsiang-ch'eng
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- Alternative form of Xiangcheng
- 1976, Jonathan Chaves, Mei Yao-chʻen and the Development of Early Sung Poetry[1], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:
- Kakehi suggests that Mei's poem was written in the autumn of 1040, when, after leaving his post as Magistrate of Hsiang-ch'eng, he was traveling in the Honan area. The Ju River flows south of Hsiang-ch'eng in central Honan, and K'un-yang lies still further south.
- 2004, Douglas A. Wissing, Pioneer in Tibet[2], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86:
- Many monks who survived the Chinese retribution joined the militant monks at the Sampiling monastery, a vast walled compound that sprawled on a remote tableland deep in the Hsiang-ch'eng. Chao invaded the Hsiang-ch'eng in January 1906 with a troop of two thousand seasoned soldiers trained in Western-style military methods.