Xichuan

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsi-ch'uan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淅川 (Xīchuān).

Xichuan

1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China.
   • [1960, Chow, Ching-wen, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl.; Lai Ming, editor, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China‎, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as China in Chains‎, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down.]