Proper noun
Hangchou
- Alternative form of Hangzhou
1971, Masterpieces of Chinese Album Painting in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, page 124:The Emperor Kao-tsung (1107-1162), whose official name was Kou, and whose familiar name was Te-chi, was the ninth son of the Emperor Hui-tsung. At first he was entitled Prince of K'ang, but on the two emperors Hui-tsung and Ch'in-tsung being taken north as prisoners by the Khitan he established himself as emperor in Hangchou.
1983, Edwin T. Morris, The Gardens of China, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, page 16:The Sung Dynasty is divided into a Northern and Southern Sung, the former when the capital was at Kaifeng, and the latter when Hangchou was the capital.
1994, Julie Landau, Beyond Spring, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:When the dust settled, there was the Chin dynasty with its own emperor plus two Sung emperors as prisoners in the north, and Kao-tsung, the first emperor of the Southern Sung, in Hangchou.