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Hankou

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Hankou p Hànkǒu), formerly romanized as Hankow (Hangkow), was one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan municipality, the capital of the Hubei province, China. [1]

50 relations: Battle of Wuhan, Beijing–Hankou railway, Boxer Rebellion, Chengdu, China, Chinese language, Chinese postal romanization, Concession (territory), Dazhimen Station, Direct-controlled municipality, District (China), Han River (Hubei), Hankou railway station, Hanyang District, Hubei, Jiang'an District, Jianghan District, K. G. Saur Verlag, Kuomintang, List of cities in China, Liu Changqing, Ming dynasty, Nanjing, New Army, Northern Expedition, Operation Matterhorn, Pinyin, Port, Qiaokou District, Qing dynasty, Queens Library, River mouth, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang, Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang, Shanxi, Simplified Chinese characters, Taiwan, Taiyuan massacre, Tang dynasty, Traditional Chinese characters, Walter de Gruyter, Wuchang District, Wuchang railway station, Wuhan, Wuhan railway station, Xunlimen Station, Yangtze, Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zhidong.

Battle of Wuhan

The Battle of Wuhan, popularly known to the Chinese as the Defense of Wuhan, and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Beijing–Hankou railway

The Beijing–Hankou or Jinghan railway, also Peking–Hankow railway, was the former name of the railway in China from Beijing to Hankou, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River.

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Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion (拳亂), Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement (義和團運動) was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty.

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Chengdu

Chengdu, formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of China's Sichuan province.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chinese postal romanization

Postal romanization was a system of transliterating Chinese place names developed by the Imperial Post Office in the early 1900s.

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Concession (territory)

In international law, a concession is a territory within a country that is administered by an entity other than the state which holds sovereignty over it.This is usually a colonizing power, or at least mandated by one, as in the case of colonial chartered companies.

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Dazhimen Station

Dazhimen Station (大智門火車站) was the southest station of the Beijing–Hankou Railway.

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Direct-controlled municipality

A direct-controlled municipality is the highest level classification for cities used by unitary state, with status equal to that of the provinces in the respective countries.

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District (China)

The term district, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.

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Han River (Hubei)

The Han River, also known by its Chinese names Hanshui and Han Jiang, is a left tributary of the Yangtze in central China.

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Hankou railway station

Hankou railway station is one of the three main railway stations in the city of Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China.

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Hanyang District

Hanyang District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

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Jiang'an District

Jiang'an District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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Jianghan District

Jianghan District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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K. G. Saur Verlag

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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List of cities in China

According to the administrative divisions of China including Hong Kong and Macau, there are three levels of cities, namely provincial-level (consists of municipalities and SARs), prefectural-level cities, and county-level cities.

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Liu Changqing

Liu Changqing (709–785), courtesy name Wenfang (文房) was a poet of the middle Tang dynasty.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Nanjing

Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500.

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New Army

The New Armies (Traditional Chinese: 新軍, Simplified Chinese: 新军; Pinyin: Xīnjūn, Manchu: Ice cooha), more fully called the Newly Created Army (Xinjian LujunAlso translated as "Newly Established Army"), was the modernized army corps formed under the Qing dynasty in December 1895, following its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War.

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Northern Expedition

The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang (KMT), also known as the Nationalists, against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926.

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Operation Matterhorn

Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for the strategic bombing of Japanese forces by B-29 Superfortresses based in India and China.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Qiaokou District

Qiaokou District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern (left) bank of the Han River.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Queens Library

The Queens Library (QL), formerly known as the Queens Borough Public Library, is the public library for the Borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City.

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River mouth

A river mouth is the part of a river where the river flows into another river, a lake, a reservoir, a sea, or an ocean.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou (Hancheuvensis) is a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese, based in Hankou (formerly romanized as Hankow or Hangkow), one of the three cities whose merger formed modern-day Wuhan municipality, the capital of the Hubei Province, central China.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanyang (Haniamen(sis)) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Hankou in PR China, yet still depends on the Roman missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wuchang (Uciamen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Wuchang in the Ecclesiastical province of Hankou in China.

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Shanxi

Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taiyuan massacre

The Taiyuan massacre took place during the Boxer Rebellion, July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, North China.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Traditional Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese characters (Pinyin) are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946.

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Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH (or; brand name: De Gruyter) is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Wuchang District

Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southeastern) bank of the Yangtze River, opposite the mouth of the Han River. The two other cities, Hanyang and Hankou, were on the left (northwestern) bank, separated from each other by the Han. The name "Wuchang" remains in common use for the part of urban Wuhan south of the Yangtze River. Administratively, however, it is split between several districts of the City of Wuhan. The historic center of Wuchang lies within the modern Wuchang District, which has an area of and a population of 1,003,400. Other parts of what is colloquially known as Wuchang are within Hongshan District (south and south-east) and Qingshan District (north-east). Presently, on the right bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of Qingshan (for a very small section) to the northeast and Hongshan to the east and south; on the opposite bank it borders Jiang'an, Jianghan and Hanyang. On 10 October 1911, the New Army stationed in the city started the Wuchang Uprising, a turning point of the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China.

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Wuchang railway station

Wuchang railway station is a major railway station on the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway, the Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway and the Hankou–Danjiangkou Railway, located on the east side of Zhongshan Road in Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

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Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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Wuhan railway station

Wuhan railway station is one of the three main passenger railway stations of Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei Province.

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Xunlimen Station

Xunlimen Station is an interchange station between Line 1 and Line 2 of the Wuhan Metro.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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Yuan Shikai

Yuan Shikai (16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese warlord, famous for his influence during the late Qing dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor, his autocratic rule as the first formal President of the Republic of China, and his short-lived attempt to restore monarchy in China, with himself as the Hongxian Emperor.

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Zhang Zhidong

Zhang Zhidong (4 September 18375 October 1909) was a Chinese official who lived the late Qing dynasty.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankou

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