From thePostal Romanization ofMandarin蘇州 /苏州(Sūzhōu).
Suchow
- (historical)Alternative form ofSuzhou,Jiangsu.
1888, M. B. Chapman,The Lands of the Orient[1], Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House,page127:The Chinese have a proverb which says: "Above is heaven; below are Su and Hang“ indicating the high esteem which they place upon the two cities,Suchow and Hangchow.Suchow is over twenty-three hundred years old, and has at present a population variously estimated at from three hundred thousand to half a million, though at one time it is said to have contained over a million.
2014,Dana Stabenow,Everything under the Heavens[3],Portland, Ore.: Gere Donovan Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page64:She smoothed one hand over the rubbled texture. She had bargained for the fabric herself, on their last trip toSuchow.
From thePostal Romanization ofMandarin徐州(Xúzhōu).
Suchow
- (obsolete or historical)Alternative form ofXuzhou,Jiangsu.
1934, George Babock Cressey,China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People[4], McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.,page178:The construction of railroads has increased the importance of a number of cities, especially those located at the intersection of two lines. On the Tientsin-Pukow Railway this growth is illustrated by Tsinan, which is the junction for the railroad to Tsingtao, andSuchow, where this line meets the Lung-Hai Railway.
1949, Jack Belden,China Shakes the World[5], Harper & Brothers,page420:This blow was delivered by Communist Generals Liu Po-cheng and Chen Yi around the town ofSuchow, 180 miles north of Nanking in November and December 1948. It was to prove catastrophic.
The city ofSuchow, which lies at the junction of the east-west Lunghia[sic – meaningLunghai] Railway and the north-south Tientsin—Nanking Railway, is perhaps the most strategic city in modern-day China. Situated at the southern boundaries of the North China Plain, this town and the area adjacent to it form a kind of gateway between the north and the south.
1981,A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development[6], volume II, Modern China Press,→OCLC,page291:When Manchuria fell to the Chinese Communists and the curtain was rising for the battle ofSuchow and Pengpu early in November, 1948, Communist troops in the vicinity of Peiping and Tientsin were also stirring into action.
From an irregular romanization ofMandarin敘州 /叙州(Xùzhōu).
Suchow
- (obsolete or historical)Alternative form ofXuzhou,Sichuan.
From theMandarin pronunciation of肅州 /肃州(Sùzhōu).
Suchow
- Alternative form ofSuzhou,Gansu.
1938, Sven Hedin, translated by F. H. Lyon,The Silk Road[7], Boston: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.,page159:Our fellows were at base camp no. 70, waiting for help. Their food supplies would not last till the end of June. Again and again, orally and in writing, we had asked for lubricating oil for the convoy. We had still, at camp no. 70, enough petrol to enable three motor-lorries and the small car to cover a stretch of 930 miles—i.e. the distance from Korla toSuchow via Hami and Anhsi.
1950, Owen Lattimore,Pivot of Asia: Sinkiang and the Inner Asian frontiers of China and Russia[8], Boston: Little, Brown and Company,page46:In 1876 Tso Tsung-t’ang, a Chinese general from Hunan who had already done much to subdue the Taipings and prove himself loyal to the Manchu Imperial Court, was appointed commander in chief of the Sinkiang expedition. His second in command was Liu Ching-t’ang, who proved himself so able that later he became the first governor of Sinkiang. AtSuchow in Kansu he accumulated a stock of grain large enough to last his army for two years. When his army reached Komul, Barkul, and Kuchengtze, it was divided into two groups.
1965, Robert Silverberg,The Great Wall of China[9], Chilton Books,page48:Beyond is the final stretch of the Ch'in Great Wall, dividing Kansu from Mongolia and enclosing the cities of Kanchow andSuchow. Twenty-three miles west ofSuchow the Great Wall came to an end.
