I-wu

See also: iwu

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles[1] romanizations of various Mandarin Chinese names.

Proper noun

I-wu

  1. Alternative form of Yiwu.
    • 1967, Jung-pang Lo, editor, K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium‎[2], University of Arizona Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53:
      The provincial censor, Chu I-hsin, a native of I-wu [in Chekiang], who was then lecturing at the Kuang-ya Academy, called on me and we debated on many questions.
    • 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎[3], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
      In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.
    • 1995, Thomas G. Nimick, “CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY”, in Ming Studies‎[4], number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      The famous general Ch'i Chi-kuang led troops from Chekiang's I-wu County in the campaigns against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast between 1561 and 1567.

References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 237: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Yiwu/I-wu (Tang "province")”

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