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Hangchow

noun

A city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world. Synonym: Hangzhou.

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... "The great city of Hangchow is extremely dry. There are probably seven hundred thousand people here, but not a drop of tea can be bought in any of the public tea-houses. There is a strike in tea. The tea-houses are all closed by common agreement, to resist a tax, imposed in the beginning of the ...

— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

... gold-fish were first reared in confinement during the Sung Dynasty, which commenced A.D. 960. In the year 1129 these fishes abounded. In another place it is said that since the year 1548 there has been "produced at Hangchow a variety called the fire-fish, from its intensely red colour. It is universally admired, and there is not a household where it is not cultivated, IN RIVALRY AS TO ITS COLOUR, and as a source of profit.") Under natural conditions it does not seem probable that beings so highly organised ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Hangchow" : People's Republic of China, metropolis, mainland China, china, city, urban center, Communist China, PRC, Red China, Cathay