Zhongxiang
See also: zhōngxiàng and Zhōngxiáng
English
    
    Alternative forms
    
- (postal romanization) Chungsiang
- (from Wade–Giles) Chung-hsiang, Chunghsiang
Etymology
    
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥/钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).
Proper noun
    
Zhongxiang
- A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.
-  [1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:- The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
 THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.]
 
-  2017 August 21 [August 18, 2017], Zhao, Kiki, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific:- In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. […]
 She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.
 
 
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Further reading
    
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
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