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Map including CHOU-SHAN (CHUSHAN) 舟山 (AMS, 1953) →OCLC
Lin's American informants soon warned him that the British warships had gone north so as to threaten the island of Chou-shan. The British authorities in London had been enlightened as to the strategic potentialities of Chou-shan - an island fifty-one miles around, which grew tea and made rice wine, and was placed off the mouth of China's largest river, the Yangtze.
The Chou Shan fishing ground to the southeast of Shanghai accounts for one-tenth of the Chinese mainland fishery output and buyers in many cities and towns have for years been wondering why they cannot get better-shaped fish from that area. [...]More than 40 per cent of the fish from the Chou Shan area are small ones. They don’t stay fresh longer than bigger fish.]
1985, Neil McCart, “Chusan 1950”, in 20th Century Passenger Ships of the P&O, Patrick Stephens Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168, column 1:
The new liner, at 24,215 gross tons, was to be the largest ship to be built by the company for the Far East service and was to be called Chusan, a name derived from the Chou-Shan archipelago off Shanghai.
Chou Shan Island had been fairly taken; to exchange it for a worthless rock nobody wanted was the height of idiocy! If not Chou Shan, then they wanted some other well-situated island in the mouth of the Yangtze.]
Zung had previously sent her a telegram from Hong Kong saying he would be back in Shanghai, and he was supposed to have arrived two days ago. But he did not appear until that morning, when he had turned up at her apartment with some absurd story about how his ship had sailed into the first typhoon of the year near Chou-shan and run aground on the muddy banks of Wu-sung-k'ou.
