Hankou 漢口

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Hànkǒu 漢口

Other names include: Xiàkǒu 夏口; merged with Hànyáng 漢陽 and Wǔchāng 武昌 in 1927 to form Wǔhàn 武漢

Hànkǒu in the treaty-port era
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Hànkǒu 漢口

Hànkǒu was settled as a center of merchant activity in the Míng dynasty, nearby to the older and more establish cities of Hànyáng 漢陽 and Wǔchāng 武昌. In the late Qīng, the city was opened to foreign powers as a treaty port. After the First World War, the Chinese government reclaimed the German and Russian concessions, and the British left during the anti-imperialist movement of 1927. Later that year the Northern expedition occupied the city, and in 1928 the three cities were merged into Jīngzhàoqū 京兆區, popularly known as Wǔhàn 武漢.

Important Buddhist Sites

  • The Hànkǒu Buddhist Association 漢口佛教會 was founded here in 1920. It was later reformed as the Right Faith Society 正信會 in 1928.
  • Huáyán University 華嚴大學 was founded here in 1920 by Cízhōu 慈舟 (1877-1958)[1]

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Notes

  1. See 劉謙定, "武昌曾有座華嚴大學".[1]

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