Wuchuan

• Wu-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: wo͞oʹchwänʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Wu‧chuan

From Mandarin 吳川 / 吴川 (Wúchuān).

Wuchuan

1. A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
   • 1981 December 12, Michael Weisskopf, “3,000 Chinese Veterans Said to Revolt in Protest Over Treatment”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 December 2023‎^[3]:

     Zheng Ming emphasized the frustration of veterans in describing the background of the July revolt in Wuchuan (formerly Meilu), a poor coastal town of 40,000 in Guangdong Province less than 300 miles west of Hong Kong. […]
     Finally on July 1 while the Communist Party was celebrating its 60th anniversary, more than 3,000 members of the brigade stormed Wuchuan, smashing file cabinets and document drawers in government offices.

From Mandarin 武川 (Wǔchuān).

Wuchuan

1. A county of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
   • 1937, “News Summary”, in Philippine Magazine‎^[4], volume XXXIV, number 1, →OCLC, page 54:

     Fifteen hundred Chinese bandits comprising one the principal bodies of the irregular forces invading Suiyuan, surrender to Chinese government forces near Wuchuan after a mutiny against their leader, Wang Ying.

   • 1974 March 15 [1974 March 9], “Inner Mongolia Girls Criticize, Dissolve Childhood Marriage Plans”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 52, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Huhehot Inner Mongolia Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page F 1:

     In the course of the struggle to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, (Ting Hsiu-chen) and (Ting Hsiu-mei), sisters in the (Tuchengtzu) brigade of (Miaotung) commune in Wuchuan County, have displayed their revolutionary spirit of daring to go against the tide, upheld the policy of late marriage, returned their betrothal presents, and are determined to thoroughly break with the old traditional ideas.

   • 2011 June 17, “Vestas says wins 49 MW turbine order in China”, in Mike Nesbit, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 4 July 2023, Green Business News‎^[6]:

     The turbines would be installed at Dayuanshan wind farm in Wuchuan County in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it said.

From Mandarin 婺川, later 務川／务川 (Wùchuān).

Wuchuan

1. An autonomous county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
   • 2007, John E. Herman, “Mu'ege During the Yuan-Ming Transition”, in Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700 (Harvard East Asian Monographs), number 293, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:

     In Chinese texts the first mention of the Tian of Sizhou occurs in 1107, when a native chief (tuqiu) named Tian Yougong submitted to Song rule; in 1118 he was named head of Sizhou prefecture.⁵¹
     Throughout the Tang and Song dynasties the administrative seat of Sizhou prefecture was located near the present-day city of Wuchuan in northern Guizhou, yet the geopolitical jurisdiction of Sizhou extended far south, to the modern cities of Zhenyuan, Taijiang, and Cengong.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 1
• “Wuchuan, Wu-ch'uan, Wu-chuan”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.