38 examples of hankow in sentences

They tell us we can go in this ship to Hankow and the Poyang Lake.

His best piece of news was that we are only about fifty miles from Hankow.

Three P.M.At Hankow; four weeks, almost to a minute, since we left Shanghae.

I am anchored off the mouth of the river Han, which separates Hankow and Han-yang on the left bank of the Yangtze.

Four P.M.I have just returned from a walk through Hankow.

In order to defeat this plan, which was manifestly adopted with the view of preventing us from coming in contact with the people, I landed near Han-yang, on the side of the river Han opposite to Hankow, and walked in the first instance to the top of a hill where there is a kind of fortress, from which we had a good view of Ouchang, Han-yang, and Hankow.

M. Hue puts the population of the three cities of Woo-chang-foo, Han-yang-foo, and Hankow, at 8,000,000.

One of the pretenders to the throne was given protection; he was installed in the present Hankow as a quasi-feudal lord depending on Chou, and there he founded the "Later Liang dynasty" (555-587).

This rising (under Wang Tun) started in the region of the present Hankow, a region that today is one of the most important in China; it was already a centre of special activity.

Normally the traffic from those provinces comes down the Yangtze, and thus in practice this region is united with that of the lower Yangtze, the environment of Nanking, so that Hankow might just as well have been the capital as Nanking.

For this reason, in the period with which we are now concerned the region of the present Hankow was several times the place of origin of great risings whose aim was to gain control of the whole of the southern empire.

They ran large ships up to Hankow where they bought rice which was brought down from Hunan in river boats by smaller merchants.

Hung made rapid progress; in 1852 he captured Hankow, and in 1853 Nanking, the important centre in the east.

The Yangtze was reached, and in 1926 the southern government moved to Hankow.

The decision arrived at by Chiang Kai-shek and his friends did not remain unopposed, and he parted from the "left group" (1927) which formed a rival government in Hankow, while Chiang Kai-shek made Nanking the seat of his government (April 1927).

Chiang Kai-shek and his government fled to Ch'ung-k'ing (Chungking), the most important commercial and financial centre of the interior after Hankow, which was soon threatened by the Japanese fleet.

When Chiang Kai-shek separated from the KMT in 1927, the main body of the KMT remained in Hankow as the legal government.

But now, while Chiang Kai-shek executed all leftists, union leaders, and communists who fell into his hands, tensions in Hankow increased between the Chinese Communist Party and the rest of the KMT.

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The party started up the Yangtse, travelling from Shanghai to Hankow and thence to Ichang by steamerthen by house-boat towed by coolies through wonderful gorges and one dangerous rapid to Chunking and Chengtu.

In the leading English case the facts were that the larger steamship companies sent to Hankow additional ships, now called, figuratively, "fighting ships," to "smash" freights in order to ruin tramp steamship owners and drive them out of the field.

Most of these ports welcomed the new order of things; but at one, notably Hankow, difficulties arose, and Hart promptly started to clear them up.

At Hankow the Viceroy, Kwan Wen, was as friendly personally as he was obstinate officially.

Hart simply told the man that he was acting under orders, and further hinted that when he reported to Peking and the Emperor Tung Chih heard that difficulties had been made about the establishment of the Customs at Hankow, it would not look well.

This was the very first news of the important event to reach Hankow, and as soon as it became generally known all the officials who had hitherto shaped their actions to please Prince Soo were quick to change their attitude.

38 examples of  hankow  in sentences