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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 上饒／上饶 (Shàngráo), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang⁴-jao².
Proper noun
Shangjao
- Alternative form of Shangrao
1954, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., “Early Months in China”, in The Life of John Birch: In the Story of One American Boy, the Ordeal of His Age, Western Islands, published 1960, →OCLC, pages 7–8:And by the time Pearl Harbor came he had so incurred the wrath of the Japanese that the very first day of official war with America they sent a detachment to arrest John Birch. But he escaped, and fled to Shangjao in Kiangsi Province.[...]
In January there arrived at Shangjao, after a precarious journey from Shanghai through occupied territory, a baptized native who brought a message from missionaries stranded in that city.
1999, “Book Two: Gathas”, in Red Pine, transl., The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit, Berkley, CA: Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:Wild Goose Pond is in Kiangsi province near the modern town of Shangjao and was the site of a famous Neo-Confucian academy as well as several important Zen monasteries.
2004, “Birch, John”, in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, 2nd edition, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72, column 1:In April 1942, a Chinese peasant in Shangjao took him to a sampan where Lt. Col. James (Jimmie) Doolittle and his crew were hiding. Doolittle had led the first U.S. bombing raid on Japan on April 18.
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