Shao-hsing

Shaohsing English thumb|Map including SHAO-HSING (SHAOHING) zh 紹興 (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 紹興// Shao⁴-hsing¹.Shaoxing, Wade-Giles romanization Shao-hsing, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 484 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/484/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Shao-hsing (Shaoxing) zh 紹興 Pronunciation shouʹshǐngʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Shaoxing. en https://archive.org/details/anarrativeconve00moulgoog/ 1868 A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician w:Henry Moule 53 In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire upon Ningpo. en 1891 Stephen W. Bushell Description of Modern Ware. Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain; Being a Translation of the Tʽao shuo zh 陶說 https://archive.org/details/descriptionofchi00zhuy/ w:Clarendon Press 1910 458999092 16 https://archive.org/details/descriptionofchi00zhuy/page/16/ Porcelain painted in blue and white, and also that decorated with the deep blue monochrome glaze, both require this blue. It is obtained from the province of Chêkiang, being found on several mountains within the two prefectures of Shao-hsing and Chin-hua. en https://archive.org/details/ladderofsuccessi0000unse/ 1962 The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911 w:Ping-ti Ho John Wiley & Sons, INC John Wiley & Sons, Inc 253 Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century. en 1989 w:Wing-tsit Chan Chu Hsi New Studies https://archive.org/details/chuhsinewstudies0000chan/ w:University of Hawaii Press 0-8248-1201-8 89-4799 246807084 2186720M 21 https://archive.org/details/chuhsinewstudies0000chan/page/21/ When I was commissioner in Chekiang East, there was a woman in Shao-hsing County who had an affair with the son of her late husband's sister. en 2002 w:David Hinton Mountain Home https://archive.org/details/mountainhome00davi/ 1-58243-149-3 51639996 8000039M 241 https://archive.org/details/mountainhome00davi/page/241/ After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend his last two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing. en 2002 w:Annping Chin Four Sisters of Hofei https://archive.org/details/foursistersofhof00chin_0/ Charles Scribner's Sons Scribner 0-684-87377-X 2002073343 248866825 7 https://archive.org/details/foursistersofhof00chin_0/page/7/ When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing. en https://archive.org/details/ihotelanovel0000yama/ 2010 I Hotel w:Karen Tei Yamashita w:Coffee House Press Minneapolis 105 So that's when we start to make menus. I say, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like summer. First course: lime ceviche, try albacore."He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine." en Translations Shaoxing References Further reading en 1952 Shaohing or Shao-hsing Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1745 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1745/ 1