Ch'ang-chou

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

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.)

• “Ch'ang-chou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Ch'ang-chou, Chang-chou, Ch'angchou, Changchou, Ch'ang-Chou, Ch'ang Chou, Chang Chou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Ch’ang-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ch'ang-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.