Hankow

British

/ ˈhænˈkaʊ /

noun

a former city in SE China, in SE Hubei at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers: one of the Han Cities; merged with Hanyang and Wuchang in 1950 to form the conurbation of Wuhan

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Samuel Pailthorpe King was born on April 13, 1916, in Hankow, China, the son of a commander of a United States Navy gunboat on the Yangtze River.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010

In Central China are the rich Wuhan Cities�Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang�of which Hankow is famed as "China's Chicago."

From Time Magazine Archive

Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow.

From Time Magazine Archive

So now a factory in Hankow is making a drug brewed from this widely grown herb.

From Time Magazine Archive

No, they said, the boat from Hankow had not come in and they’d had no word.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

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