Definition of "Huangzhou"

The Eighth City, Whang-chew-few.THE Situation of this City on the Yang-tſe-kyang, its ſmall Diſtance from the Capital, and the Number of Lakes wherewith it is ſurrounded, renders it a delightful Habitation.]

, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, page 100

When Su Dongbo’s trial ended, Emperor Shenzong rejected demands for the death penalty but sentenced Su to exile in Huangzhou, near present-day Wuhan.

1988, Frank Ching, “Qin Guan: The Romantic Poet”, in Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family‎, New York: William Morrow and Company, page 48

The middle, most common, kind, was known as “anzhi,” or “peaceably established.” It was used against the poet and official Su Shi, who was found guilty of “great irreverence” for publishing poems critical of government policies in 1079 and sentenced to two years of village arrest in Huangzhou on the Yangzi River.

2011 March 9, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Out of Jail in China, but Not Free”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 07 June 2017, Asia Pacific‎