Ch'ao-hsien

English Etymology From en cmn 朝鮮 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chʻao-hsien. Proper noun 1 1 en Chaoxian. en 1963 Periods A Short History of Korea https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofko0000unse_o7v4/ 22353423 1 https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofko0000unse_o7v4/page/1/ The period of the Lo-lang Province and the Three Hans, which followed the Ancient Ch’ao-hsien Kingdoms, goes back some 2,000 years. To be exact, it was in 108 B.C. that Wu-ti, the famous Emperor of Han, defeated Wei You-ch’ü, a grandson of Wei Man, captured the Korean Peninsula and governed it by dividing it into four provinces. en 1965 A. P. Okladnikov A. P. Okladnikov From Stone to Metal Henry N. Michael The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R. https://archive.org/details/sovietfareastina0000henr/ w:University of Toronto Press 493917 161 https://archive.org/details/sovietfareastina0000henr/page/161/ According to an ancient legend, immediately after the fall of the Shang-Yin Dynasty in 1122 b.c., one of its members, Prince Ch’i Tz’ǔ, fled to the east and afterwards founded there the new state of Ch’ao-hsien (Choson—Korea). en 1974 Michael Loewe Frank A. Kierman, Jr.; John K. Fairbank Chinese Ways in Warfare https://archive.org/details/chinesewaysinwar0000unse/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-12575-4 73-80565 1009099 74 https://archive.org/details/chinesewaysinwar0000unse/page/74/ In 109–108 b.c. two expeditions were sent against Ch’ao-hsien (in the present Korea), and four commanderies were founded there in 108; at the same time Han forces had been penetrating more deeply into the southwest, where I-chou commandery was established in 109. en 2006 145–86 Ssu-ma Ch’ien Hereditary House 8 Zhenjun Zhang William H. Nienhauser, Jr. William Nienhauser The Grand Scribe's Records https://books.google.com/books?id=xGBYRAIfExsC V.1 w:Indiana University Press 0-253-34025-X 63395974 276 https://books.google.com/books?id=xGBYRAIfExsC&pg=PA276 ⁹⁵For Ch’ao-hsien, "Cheng-yi" says, "K’uo-ti chih zh 括地志 says, 'Kao-li's zh 高麗 P’ing-jang zh 平壤 City, originally the governing site/city of Chien zh 儉, the Prince of Yüeh-lang zh 樂浪 Prefecture of the Han. It was ancient Ch’ao-hsien.'" en