Jo-ch'iang

English thumb|ERH-CH'IANG (CHARKHLIK) (JO-CHʻIANG) (U.S. Army Topographic Command ATC, 1971) Etymology From en cmn 婼羌 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Jo⁴-chʻiang¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Ruoqiang. en 1944 July Frederick William Thomas (philologist) F. W. Thomas The Early Population of Lou-lan-Shan-shan Journal of the Greater India Society https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501851/page/n235/ XI 2 220725323 55 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501851/page/n245/ These particulars concerning the Jo-ch'iang are mostly stated in the main account:...The fact of bordering on Cer-cen and its southern neighbour may imply that the later Vāshshahri, between Charkhlik and Cer-cen, was originally a Jo-ch'iang station. The extension of the Jo-ch'iang along the whole hinterland south of the mountains is displayed in old Chinese maps also and in that accompanying Professor Herrmann's Die Seidenstrassen. en 1973 Chiao-min Hsieh ATLAS OF CHINA https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/ McGraw-Hill, Inc. 0-07-030628-1 72-8717 1204247698 194 https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/page/194/ Sinkiang is linked with Tibet by the Sinkiang-Tibet Highway, which begins at Jo-chʻiang (Charkhlik) in southern Sinkiang. en https://www.jstor.org/stable/41645543 1998 Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD Angela Sheng Asia Major (journal) Asia Major 11 2 w:Academia Sinica 41645543 0004-4482 1010640739 121 The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran zh 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang zh 若羌 county), Ni-ya zh 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng zh 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar. Translations Ruoqiang