Chekiang

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 浙江 Zhèjiāng, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ],Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 with the word itself from a former name of the Qiantang River. Pronunciation en /t͡ʃɛˈkjæŋ/ RP <<name:lexico>> en /d͡ʒəˈd͡ʒjɑŋ/<ref:<<name:lexico>>> GA,hyperforeign chěʹkyǎngʹ jûʹjyängʹen 1952 Chekiang or Che-chiang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 380 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/380/ 3 Chekiang or Che-chiang (both: chěʹkyǎngʹ, jûʹjyängʹ), jǔʹjē-ängʹen 1979 Che·kiang The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 149 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/149/ 2 Che·kiang (jǔʹjē-ängʹ), Proper noun en Zhejiang. en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 1655 Bellum Tartaricum The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China F. Alvarez Semedo E. Tyler 281 https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/page/281/ After this, they divided their Army into two parts; the one they ſent to conquer the Mediterranean Provinces of Kiangſi, Huquang, & Quangtung, which are all of a marvellous extent; the other like a ſwift Torrent, over-run all, till they came to the very Walls of the renowned and vaſt City of Hangcheu, which is the head City of the Province of Chekiang. en 1669 1665 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ nl John Macock London 407084353 6 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n17/ Among the Iſlands which are Tributary to this Kingdom, is alſo accounted the Iſland Formoſa, which the Chineſes call Lieukieu, and ſituated over againſt the Province of Foken ; as alſo the Iſland of Cheuxan, over againſt the Province of Chekiang, a very famous place for Trading. 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. on en 1938 Robert Berkov Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek https://archive.org/details/strongmanofchina0000berk Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 715047820 17 https://archive.org/details/strongmanofchina0000berk/page/17/ Chiang was then given command of a regiment, and led three thousand men to Hangchow, Wenchow, and Taichow, all in his native province of Chekiang. His exploits sounded impressive, but the truth was that he encountered practically no opposition. As soon as a force was led against a town, imperial authority collapsed. Officials resigned or fled, and revolutionary leaders, mostly military, assumed authority. The progress was gratifying but hardly exciting. en https://archive.org/details/assignmentinchek00maxw/ 1982 Assignment in Chekiang Grant Maxwell Thorn Press Limited 8 Whatever their individual views on how best to evangelize, life for the Scarboro men and Grey Sisters in Chekiang province rarely unfolded as they had hoped. And soon after the Marxist People's Republic was proclaimed in 1949, all their proselytizing activities came to an end. en https://archive.org/details/shaohsingcompeti00cole/ 1986 Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China James H. Cole w:University of Arizona Press 76 After the Taiping war northern Chekiang as a whole, and its rich alluvium in particular, immediately attracted immigrants from overcrowded Ningpo and Shaohsing prefectures. Land-hungry peasants from other coastal prefectures, T'ai-chou and Wen-chou, soon joined ranks with Ningpo and Shaohsing peasants and settled first in the delta of Chia-hsing prefecture and then in the valleys and low hills of Hang-chou and Hu-chou prefectures. en 2015 w:Richard Overy The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II https://archive.org/details/theoxfordillustratedhistoryoffirstworldwar19391945/The%20Oxford%20Illustrated%20History%20of%20First%20World%20War%20%281939-1945%29/ w:Oxford University Press 978-0-19-960582-8 2014946123 942717184 340 https://archive.org/details/theoxfordillustratedhistoryoffirstworldwar19391945/The%20Oxford%20Illustrated%20History%20of%20First%20World%20War%20%281939-1945%29/page/n368/ The Japanese also spread anthrax and typhoid, and contaminated water sources in Chekiang province, leading to the deaths of many thousands of Chinese as epidemics took their toll in the region in 1942 and 1943. en Features of Shadow Puppets Flash https://web.archive.org/web/20200809050003/https://kmsp.khcc.gov.tw/ENG/home02.aspx?ID=$3001&IDK=2&EXEC=L&DATA=127&AP=$3001_HISTORY-0%5E$3001_PN-1 09 August 2020 Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppet- zh 戲說皮影戲 Based around Chekiang Province Hangchou shadow puppets are made of lambskin, with only one side painted with colors. They are soft and pliable. Derived terms en Chekiangese References Further reading