Chengchow

/ ˈtʃɛŋˈtʃaʊ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Zhengzhou

Example Sentences

Sulzberger left China, he wrote a wry piece last November indicating how little he had really been able to observe: "I can only boast I am the first American columnist over 60 to visit Inner Mongolia since 1949, and the first with a Greek wife to lunch in Chengchow."

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For months the murky floodwaters around the Yellow River, to the north of the Yangtze, have prevented the Japanese from making a widespread onslaught on Hankow but by last week the waters had subsided enough to allow them to set their troops in motion on a 400-mile line, extending from Chengchow on the Yellow River to Teian, 45 miles south of the Yangtze.

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Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow.

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In the offices of the Chungyuen Daily, in Chengchow.

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He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow.

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