# Xiangzhou
## English
### Alternative forms

* Hsiang-chou (Wade–Giles)

### Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 香洲 (Xiāngzhōu).

#### Proper noun

Xiangzhou
* A district of Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
** 1984 January 30 [1983 August 13], He Shaoying [0149 1421 5391] [何少英], Yu Kejia [0060 0344 1367] [于克家], Lin Guoyang [2651 0948 7122] [林國陽], “The Hainan Iron Mine Sets Up 10 Specialized Corporations: The Large Enterprise Is Playing the Role of Backbone in the Construction of Hainan Island; Concerning Funds, Technology, Management and Administration and in other Respects, It Will Make a Contribution in Accelerating the Construction of Hainan”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 84-006, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou NANFANG RIBAO, p1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 22:Excluding the 2.5 million yuan investments last year for the Qiongzhou Restaurant in Zhuhai in the Xiangzhou district and funds for renovating and expanding a restaurant in Guangzhou, they will prepare to construct tourist facilities at Haikou, Shiliu, Basuo, Sanya and other places, and will connect Zhuhai, Guangzhou, Haikou, Shiliu, Basuo and Sanya.
** 2002 February 23, Bei Ling, Andrea Huss, “Warming Up to China, Neglecting Democracy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 November 2010, Opinion‎:As President Bush addressed students at Qinghua University in Beijing on the 30th anniversary of Richard M. Nixon's momentous trip to China, where was the mention of the six Qinghua graduate students recently sentenced in southern China's Xiangzhou District Court, in Zhuhai City, for "utilizing an evil cult to sabotage legal enforcement"? All are practitioners of Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation movement that numbers its followers in the tens of thousands.
** 2010, Nancy J. Rosenbloom, “The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900”, in Women in American History since 1880: A Documentary Reader‎, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:Heungshan (Xiangshan) District was renamed Chungshan (Zhongshan) District in 1925 in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who led the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the Republic of China. In 1965 the Wong Leung Do area separated from Chungshan District to become Doumen District. Today, Doumen District is a part of Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄州 (Xiāngzhōu).

#### Proper noun

Xiangzhou
* A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
** 2016 January 29, Editorial Office, “Chenghe Wickerwork”, in Hubei Provincial People's Government Official Web Portal‎, archived from the original on 30 July 2022‎:Chenghe wickerwork, also known as Xiangyang wickerwork, is a specialty of Chenghe town, Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang city, and a product with protected geographical indication in China. Chenghe is one of the top three wickerwork export bases in China.
** 2021, Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu, A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 184:Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.

##### Translations
### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
* Xiangzhou, Hsiang-chou, Hsiangchou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.