Ch'ang-chou

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See also: chàngchóu and Chang-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 常州 (Chángzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-chou¹.[1][2]

Proper noun

Ch'ang-chou

  1. Alternative form of Changzhou
    • 1894 May, Rev. Isaac T. Headland, “The Edward Bellamy of China: or The Political Condition of the Middle Sungs.”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 25, number 5, page 207:
      The President of the Imperial Academy recommended him for the title of Censor (諫官), but Wang An-shih refused to receive it, giving as a reason that his grandmother was sick and old, and he wanted to serve her. But at once he was made Department Magistrate (知州) of Chʻang-chou.
    • 1927, John C. Ferguson, “Patterns of the Yüan Dynasty”, in Chinese Painting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 148:
      Liang Ch’ang is a hill in Chin-t’an near the borders of Kü-jung about fifty miles west of Ch’ang-chou in Kiangsu Province.
    • 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
      Wu Kʻuan, for example, who won the highest honors in the metropolitan and palace examination of 1472 and became president of the Board of Rites, was from an artisan family of Ch’ang-chou County, part of Su-chou in southern Kiangsu.
    • 1981, Caleb Carr, The Devil Soldier, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:
      The Chung Wang claimed that the imperialists lost 10,000 men at Tan-yang, and, while such numbers were invariably exaggerated by both sides during the rebellion, the victory did open the way to the town of Ch'ang-chou, the first vital position on the line to Soochow.
    • 1990, Leung Yuen-sang, The Shanghai Taotai: Linkage Man in a Changing Society, 1843-90, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
      Further, he suggested strategies and gave counsel to his superiors at Soochow and Ch'ang-chou. (The Governor-General resided temporarily in Ch'ang-chou after the Taiping capture of Nanking in 1853.)

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References

  1. ^ Changzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ang-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 347:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: [] (2) the Wade-Giles system, [] shown after the main entry [] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses []
    Changchow (Ch’ang-chou, Changzhou)

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