Fancheng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Fan-ch'eng
Proper noun
Fancheng
- A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- 1885 June, “Editorial Notes and Missionary News”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume XVI, number 5, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, OCLC 14697053, page 236:
- During March, Mr. J. Thorne, and Mr. Sturman made the journey from Fancheng (Hupeh) to Singanfu (Shensi) via Kaifeng the capital of Honan.
- 1972, Topping, Seymour, Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, OCLC 906398512, pages 233-234:
- From Wuhan, the great tri-city metropolis of Central China in the Yangtze River valley, they had gone by overnight train to Fancheng in the rich agricultural country of Hupei Province. "Fancheng is three hundred miles up the Han River, as Dad describes it from the days when he used to travel on the big sailing junks," she said.
- 2018 May 22, “A look at working farmers across China(2/9)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 28 May 2018:
- A farmer works in the field in the Fancheng District of Xiangyang City, central China's Hubei Province, May 21, 2018.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fancheng.
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