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
武汉黄鹤楼
Map of Wuhan, China.*Wuhan cheng zhen he tu / Hubei guan shu ju bian zhi.
Foreign concessions along the Hankou Bund c. 1900.
Wuchang Uprising Memorial, the original site of revolutionary government in 1911
Present-day Wuhan area in 1915
The meeting room of former building of Wuhan nationalist government, inside Nanyang building.
Restored warship Zhongshan in its museum
Chiang Kai-Shek inspecting Chinese soldiers in Wuhan as Japanese forces approach the city
Walking through Jiangtan street, along Yangze river.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Focus on Wuhan, China". The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. Archived from the original on December 12, 2013. 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". Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Stephen R. MacKinnon (2002). Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950. University of Hawaii Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0824825188.
- ↑ "AN AMERICAN IN CHINA: 1936-39 A Memoir". Archived from the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Stephen R. MacKinnon (21 May 2008). Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. University of California Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0520254459.