Hsu-chou

Even in T'ang times, self-sufficient villages lacking economic contacts with the outside world had become sufficiently rare to make it worthwhile for the ninth-century poet Po Chü-i to record an instance of one such which he had seen in Hsu-chou, in what is now northwestern Kiangsu.

In early April 1938, for example, as the Japanese converged on the key transportation centre of Hsu-chou in northern Kiangsu, General Li Tsung-jen’s forces enticed the attackers into a trap in the walled town of T'ai-erh-chuang.