Chou-shan

English thumb|Map including CHOU-SHAN (CHUSHAN) zh 舟山 (AMS, 1953) 10552568 Etymology From en cmn 舟山 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chou¹-shan¹.Zhoushan Archipelago, (Wade-Giles romanization) Chou-shan Ch’ün-tao, in Encyclopædia Britannica Pronunciation jōʹshänʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Zhoushan. en 1975 w:Jack Beeching The Chinese Opium Wars https://archive.org/details/chineseopiumwars00beec/ w:Harvest Books 0-15-617094-9 76-40223 300303290 4897664M 113 https://archive.org/details/chineseopiumwars00beec/page/113/ 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. en April 6, 1980 L. Chen Small things, big troubles Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1980-04-06_21_13/ XXI 13 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1980-04-06_21_13/page/n2/ 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. on en 1985 Neil McCart Chusan 1950 20th Century Passenger Ships of the P&O https://archive.org/details/20thcenturypasse0000mcca/ Patrick Stephens Limited 0-85059-716-1 14213723 168 https://archive.org/details/20thcenturypasse0000mcca/page/168/ 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. en 1993 Susannah Leigh Jade Dawn https://archive.org/details/jadedawn0000leig/ 0-451-40398-3 29214674 24877027M 210 https://archive.org/details/jadedawn0000leig/page/210/ 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. on en 2015 Xiao Bai Chenxin Jiang French Concession https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/ w:Harper Collins Publishers 978-0-06-231345-4 919478151 187 https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/page/187/ 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. Translations Zhoushan References Further reading