Tsaoyang

From the Postal Romanization^[1] of Mandarin 棗陽 (Zǎoyáng).

Tsaoyang

1. Alternative form of Zaoyang.
   • 1929 November 23, “Government Faced with Triple War Threat”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume L, number 12, →OCLC, page 468, column 1:

     “It is stated that a general drive against the Kuominchun invaders has already started from Tsaoyang, in North Hupeh, near the Hunan border, and General Liu Shih, the Wuhan garrison commander, expresses confidence that his forces, 100,000 in number, are adequate to deal with the situation.

   • 1940 June 12, “Heavy losses as Japan advances into heart of China”, in World War II: Day by Day‎^[3], DK, published 2004, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94, column 4:

     In the see-saw battle for Tsaoyang in May the Japanese suffered 45,000 wounded or killed, and they had to pull reinforcements from Manchukuo before take Ichang (→ 17).

   • 1976 December 9 [1976 December 6], “Hupeh Daily Criticizes Local 'Gang' Activities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 238, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 1:

     On 5 December, HUPEH DAILY frontpaged a report on the Tsaoyang County CCP Committee giving free rein to the masses to thoroughly expose and criticize the towering crimes of the "gang of four" in laying their hands on Tsaoyang and added an editor's note.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsaoyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1952, column 1

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