Hechuan

• (from Wade–Giles) Ho-ch'uan

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 合川 (Héchuān).

Hechuan

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • [1941, Anor Lin, “Sung Dugout”, in Dawn Over Chungking‎, New York: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 87:

     "Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads.]

   • 2014 October 10, Yang Xin, “Outcry as Rapist Walks Free”, in Beijing Today‎, number 696, →OCLC, page 1:

     On September 12, a man named Xiao Gang (pseudonym) was walking along BinjiangLu in Hechuan District, Chongqing when he was suddenly grabbed and forced into an abandoned home on the side of the road and sexually assaulted by Xiao Yong (pseudonym).

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hechuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1258, column 3