Definition of "Chunghsiang"

In Central Hupeh, the Japanese launched another offensive from the Kingshan region, but instead of moving southwestward to cooperate with another column of theirs to capture Shasi, this column swerved to the northwest and succeeded in capturing Chunghsiang on the Han River.

1939 January, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎, volume XXXVI, number 1, page 121

At Hsiaochien and Lishan, too, the Japanese suffered defeats; at Chunghsiang they were attacked. Their attack on Yingcheng, northern part of the province, ended in a retreat, and they announced that they would evacuate Macheng, east of Yingcheng.

1940 April, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎, volume XXXVII, number 4 (384), page 144

One of the detailed recordings made without going into the field, but right at home in Nanking, was the dialect of Chunghsiang in central Hupeh, for which Mr. Li Ch'üan (styled Hsun-Fu), father of my colleague Li Chi in Academia Sinica, was the chief informant.

1976, Yuen Ren Chao, “My Fieldwork on the Chinese Dialects (1975)”, in Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays by Yuen Ren Chao‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, page 30