Wu Han

See also: Wuhan, Wǔhàn, and Wu-han

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 武漢／武汉 (Wǔ Hàn).

Proper noun

Wu Han

1. Alternative spelling of Wuhan
   • [1929 April 6, “Hankow in Hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[1], volume XLVIII, number 6, →OCLC, page 226, column 1:

     The main forces of the Wu-Han armies were concentrated on the line extending from Yanglo to Hsiaokwan by way of Huangpi.]

   • [1969, Dun J. Li, editor, The Road to Communism: China Since 1912‎^[2], Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     The other day I learned from a newspaper report that practically all of the 200 Communists who had been executed in Wu-Han were twenty-five or below and that the majority of them had been girls.]

   • 1974 December, Cajo Brendel, Theses on the Chinese Revolution‎^[3], London: Solidarity, →OCLC, page 15:

     In the April of that year there were two KMT governments; a left wing one at Wu Han and a right wing one at Nanking. The differences between them were not great for the Wu Han regime itself was to keep its distance from the peasantry, now becoming active....When the peasant movement in Honan took on the appearance of a mass revolt, Tan Ping San, the Minister of Agriculture at Wu Han, travelled to the province to 'prevent excesses'...(in other words to suppress the revolt).

   • 1982, Craig Thomas, Jade Tiger‎^[4], Harper Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 166:

     "Give him the truth, then."
     "Not yet. He must work for it. Then he will believe it. In Wu Han, perhaps."
     "OK."
     "You must make arrangements for Liu to reach Wu Han. Please inform me of his report, when he makes it. Then I shall make the necessary arrangements for our smokescreen."

   • 2001, “Fu Mingxia”, in Biography Today‎^[5], volume V, Omnigraphics, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:

     Fu lived in Beijing for many years in a house that was provided to her by the Chinese government in recognition of her athletic achievements. In the late 1990s, however, she moved to the city of Wu Han, in the Chinese province of Hu Bei, where she currently lives.

   • 2001 November 24, Steve McClure, “China Packed With Potential”, in Asia Pacific Quarterly‎^[6], page APQ-4:

     Universal Music Asia Pacific chairman Norman Cheng says that the piracy situation has improved considerably in major cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Wu Han.

   • 2008, Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok, David Phillips, Social Policy in China: Development and Well-Being‎^[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 72–73:

     Another study showed that only 3.6% of 387 MSLS respondents in Wu Han City received financial support for medical treatment and many poor people did not have, or had delayed, medical consultations due to financial difficulties (Mei and Liu, 2005).

Translations

Wuhan — see Wuhan