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Ch'ü-chou
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chuchou Chu-chou Ch'u-chou chūchǒu chúchòu
English
Etymology
From en cmn 衢州, en cmn-wadegiles -Quzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ü-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Quzhou/Ch'ü-chou 28°55′N 118°50′E, romanization: Chʻü²-chou¹.
Proper noun
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en Quzhou.
1906, China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces, 5879299 page 19:
It appears that at the prefectural city of Ch'ü-chou eight Foreigners, belonging to the China Inland Mission, were still remaining, awaiting the arrival of three others from up country to depart together;[...]
en 1970 Warren E. Cox The Book of Pottery and Porcelain https://archive.org/details/bookofpotterypor0000coxw/ I Revised New York w:Crown Publishers 0-517-50541X 75-127511 907774494 151 https://archive.org/details/bookofpotterypor0000coxw/page/151/ As a matter of fact we have dated Sung Ch'ü-chou wares as well as Lung-ch'üan ones bearing Ming dates.
en 1971 Mary Backus Rankin Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911 https://archive.org/details/earlychineserevo0000rank/ w:Harvard University Press 0674-22001-3 76-115479 729089987 131 https://archive.org/details/earlychineserevo0000rank/page/131 Meanwhile, a subordinate went north to Kinhwa and Yenchow and made alliances with secret societies in those prefectures. Liu then moved against the prefectural capital in Ch'ü-chou.
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Translations
Quzhou
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