O-chou

ó chou English Etymology From en cmn - 鄂州 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: O⁴-chou¹. Proper noun O-chou 1 en Ezhou. en https://archive.org/details/confucianpersona0000unse/ 1962 1-896951-88-0 Lu Chih (754-805) : Imperial Adviser and Court Official w:Denis Twitchett Confucian Personalities w:Arthur F. Wright w:Stanford University Press 90 https://archive.org/details/confucianpersona0000unse/page/90/ Pʻei Yen-ling settled at O-chou on the middle Yangtze, where he devoted himself to historical scholarship, continuing and completing the famous commentary to the Shih-chi of Pei Yin, and acquiring some reputation as a scholar. en 1970 1968 w:Shiba Yoshinobu w:Mark Elvin Commerce and Society in Sung China https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/ 1992 0-89264-902-X 1181343913 4197231M 67 https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/page/67/ From the foregoing outline of the circulation of rice in the various provinces it is apparent that Lin-an (Hang-chou), Chien-kʻang (Nanking) and O-chou (Wu-chʻang) were central regional markets serving a large-scale long-distance trade freely carried on by merchants. en 1973 Life and Works w:William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Liu Tsung-yüan https://archive.org/details/liutsungyuan0000unse/ w:Twayne Publishers New York 72-3183 689320 116 https://archive.org/details/liutsungyuan0000unse/page/116/ Liu Chen had gone to the Wu area about 776 to begin mourning for his father. After the mourning period had elapsed, he was assigned to serve (ca. 783) in O-chou under Li Chien. en 2000 Lady Murasaki w:Arthur Waley The Tale of Genji https://archive.org/details/taleofgenji00mura_1/ Mineola, NY w:Dover Publications 0-486-41415-9 00-029542 43641421 146 https://archive.org/details/taleofgenji00mura_1/page/146/ So must the voice of the mysterious lady at O-chou have sounded in Po Chü-i's ears when he heard her singing on her boat at night;¹⁷ and he stood listening. ¹⁷The poem referred to is not the famous Lute Girl's Song, but a much shorter one (Works x. 8) on a similar theme. O-chou is the modern Wu-ch'ang in Hupeh. en Translations Ezhou