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Chao-ch'ing
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Chaoching
English
Etymology
From en cmn - 肇慶, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chao⁴-chʻing⁴.Zhaoqing, Wade-Giles romanization Chao-ch’ing, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Proper noun
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en Zhaoqing.
en 1970 Nigel Cameron Barbarians and Mandarins: Thirteen Centuries of Western Travelers in China https://archive.org/details/barbariansmandar00came/ 0-8027-2403-5 70-98333 100117 5696960M 166 https://archive.org/details/barbariansmandar00came/page/166/ It could have been proved by Ricci that he had no evil intent, but in fact his intention to convert the Chinese to Christianity in itself constituted a threat to the settled traditional way of Chinese life as it was lived in Chao-ch’ing and all over the country. We cannot credit the illiterate populace of Chao-ch’ing with the understanding of these exact terms, but in their intuitive way they knew very well that the presence of foreigners, whose actions round the coasts were blatant piracy, was a poor augury for present and future contacts between themselves and the foreign bonzes from Macao.
en 1985 w:Steven W. Mosher Journey To The Forbidden China https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/ w:Collier Macmillan 0-02-921710-5 85-2610 1073326498 3022382M 24 https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/page/24/ Here on the north bank sat the city of Chao-ch'ing ("Establish-Fortune"), a Chinese Vicksburg, commanding the river route to Canton.
en 1988 Charles E. Ronan; Bonnie B. C. Oh East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773 https://archive.org/details/eastmeetswestjes0000unse/ Chicago w:Loyola University Press 0-8294-0572-0 87-2704 906492034 35 https://archive.org/details/eastmeetswestjes0000unse/page/35/ The viceroy of the two provinces, Kuangtung and Kuangsi, who had his seat in the official capital, Chao-chʻing, ordered the bishop of Macao to come to Chao-chʻing where he would be apprised of the government’s policy in this matter.
Translations
Zhaoqing
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