Ch'üan-chou

Ch'uan-chou English Etymology From en cmn 泉州, en cmn-wadegiles -Quanzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’üan-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 348 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/348/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesChüanchow (Ch'üan-chou, Quanzhou), Fukien Provinceen 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Quanzhou/Ch'üan-chou/Quan/Zayton 24°53′N 118°36′E, romanization: Chʻüan²-chou¹.en 2005 Jeroen Wiedenhof Jeroen Wiedenhof Purpose and effect in the transcription of Mandarin Proceedings of the International Conference on Chinese Studies 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20070319162614/https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/tk/pbl/articles/purp&eff.pdf https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/tk/pbl/articles/purp&eff.pdf May 19, 2007 390 Within the same plate, place names in China are spelled in Pīnyīn without tone symbols, e.g. “Quanzhou” for zh 泉州, Pīnyīn Quánzhōu, Wade Giles Ch’üan²-chou¹; but place names in Taiwan reflect the Wade-Giles system, again dispensing with tones: “Kao-hsiung” and “Kaohsiung” for zh 高雄, Wade Giles Kao¹-hsiung², Pīnyīn Gāoxióng. Pronunciation chə-wänʹjōʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Quanzhou. en 1965 w:Wolfram Eberhard The Bridge of Chʻüan-chou Folktales of China https://archive.org/details/folktalesofchina00eber/ Revised w:University of Chicago Press 103 https://archive.org/details/folktalesofchina00eber/page/103/ The Loyang bridge lies twenty miles outside the east gate of Chʻüan-chou, just on the borders of the district. en https://archive.org/details/silkroad0000boul/ 1966 The Silk Road w:Luce Boulnois Dennis Chamberlin London 988081 208 We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'. en 1977 Sarasin Viraphol Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese trade, 1652–1853 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-80915-7 77-9447 3016868 40 https://archive.org/details/tributeprofitsin0000sara/page/40/ In spite of the Manchu-imposed ban on overseas travel and trade, the Siamese tributary trade must have been profitable enough for a good many Chinese to handle it. Consequently, the early Chinese settlers in Siam were principally merchants from Chʻüan-chou prefecture in southern Fukien and Canton in Kwangtung, who were connected with the Siamese tributary trade. en 1979 Yu-ming Shaw Modern History of Taiwan: An Interpretative Account China and the Taiwan Issue Hungdah Chiu https://archive.org/details/chinataiwanissue0000unse/ w:Praeger Publishers 0030489113 79-14270 4883056 8 https://archive.org/details/chinataiwanissue0000unse/page/8/ In terms of sending Chinese immigrants and a Chinese administration to Taiwan and its adjacent P’eng-hu, it had to wait for several centuries. There are documentary evidences indicating that by 1171, P’eng-hu (Pescadores) had become a Chinese military outpost, and at least by 1225 it was administratively incorporated into the Chinese Empire—placed under the jurisdiction of Tsin-kiang County of Ch’üan-chou Prefecture, Fukien Province. en Translations Quanzhou References Further reading Ch'üan-chou