Wuhan
Wuhan (Chinese: 武汉) is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, and is the city with most people in Central China.[1] It is at the east of the Jianghan Plain, where the Yangtze and Han rivers meet. Joining three nearby cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is a center of transportation, with many railways, roads and expressways passing through. Because of its important role in transportation, Wuhan was sometimes called the "Chicago of China."[2][3] It is also recognized as the political, economic, financial, cultural, and educational center of central China.[1]
The city of Wuhan, first called so in 1927, has 10,020,000 people (as at 2011).[4] In the 1920s, Wuhan was the national capital of a Kuomintang (KMT) government led by Wang Jingwei when he was against Chiang Kai-shek,[5] and it was also the capital in 1937.[6][7]
Wuhan Media
Panlongcheng, located in the southernmost area of the Erligang culture
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Map of Wuhan, China.*Wuhan cheng zhen he tu / Hubei guan shu ju bian zhi.
Foreign concessions along the Hankou Bund c. 1900.
The meeting room of former building of Wuhan nationalist government, inside Nanyang building.
Restored warship Zhongshan in its museum
A park in Wuhan festooned to mark the third anniversary of the founding of the Hankou Municipal Government, March 1943.
People's Liberation Army troops at Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou on May 16, 1949
Jiangtan street along Yangze river
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Focus on Wuhan, ChinaThe Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Foreign News: On To Chicago". Time magazine. June 13, 1938. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848985,00.html. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Jacob, Mark (May 13, 2012). Chicago is all over the place. Chicago Tribune. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-13/news/ct-talk-nato-chicago-0513-20120513_1_violent-crime-chicago-connection-south-america-s-chicago. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ↑ 武汉市2011年国民经济和社会发展统计公报. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Stephen R. MacKinnon. Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 (2002)University of Hawaii Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0824825188.
- ↑ AN AMERICAN IN CHINA: 1936-39 A Memoir. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Stephen R. MacKinnon. Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (21 May 2008)University of California Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0520254459.