Hsiang-ch'eng

Hsiang-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Xiangcheng
   • 1976, Jonathan Chaves, Mei Yao-chʻen and the Development of Early Sung Poetry‎, 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, 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.