Cha-pu

Chapu chápù chápu English Alternative forms en Chapu Etymology From the Wade-Giles romanization of en cmn - en zh - zh 乍浦 Zhàpǔ Wade-Giles romanization: Cha⁴-pʻu³. Proper noun 1 en obsolete en Zhapu. en 1975 Han-sheng Chuan; Richard A. Kraus Mid-Chʻing Rice Markets and Trade: An Essay in Price History https://archive.org/details/trent_0116300461393/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-57340-4 74-24937 906155131 60 https://archive.org/details/trent_0116300461393/page/60/ One route to Shanghai went via river and canal, and the second was to Cha-pu (in Chekiang) which at the time evidently stood at the mouth of a river directly connecting the Grand Canal below Soochow with the sea. Ts’ai also seems to indicate that the trade via Cha-pu was the larger, since it is there, he advises, the needed grain should be purchased.¹³ The impression that the Cha-pu route was the dominant one is further strengthened by an earlier report in 1706 that Cha-pu was the port for shipment of rice out of Soochow to Fukien.¹⁴ Anagrams en achpu Pa-ch'u chupa