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Changshu
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chángshù
English
Alternative forms
en Ch'ang-shu Wade-Giles
en Changhsu misspelling
Etymology
From en cmn 常熟.
Pronunciation
en /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃu/ /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
chängʹsho͞oʹcf. en 1952 Changshu or Ch’ang-shu Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 370 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/370/ 2
en Chang shu
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Suzhou p/Jiangsu c/China.
en January 13, 1923 Medical News w:Journal of the American Medical Association https://archive.org/details/journalofamerica801unse/ 80 2 0098-7484 59823794 119 https://archive.org/details/journalofamerica801unse/page/119/ The American Church Mission Hospital at Changshu was formally opened in September.
en 1991 Christine P. W. Wong Central Planning and Local Participation Under Mao: the Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants Gordon White The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform: The Road to Crisis https://archive.org/details/chinesestatein00whit/ w:M. E. Sharpe 0-87332-853-1 90-29275 756976894 30, 31 https://archive.org/details/chinesestatein00whit/page/30/ For example, one report told of how the Changshou County Chemical Fertiliser Plant (in Jiangsu province) was financed.[...]Anecdotal reports such as the one from Changshou County implied that much of the investment funding for small fertiliser plants was raised locally, outside of the state sector. on
en September 18, 2013 Norihiko Shirouzu; Kazunori Takada Japanese Carmakers Struggle With History in China w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160206131950/http://www.nytimes.com:80/2013/09/19/business/global/japanese-carmakers-struggle-with-history-in-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/business/global/japanese-carmakers-struggle-with-history-in-china.html February 06, 2016 0362-4331 1645522 Global Business He noted the opening of a Toyota China branch this year in Nanjing, Jiangsu’s capital and the site of a massacre under Japanese occupation in 1937. Toyota has also opened a technical center in Changshu, east of Nanjing.
en February 12, 2019 Velodyne Lidar’s Sponsorship of Autonomous Vehicle Competition in China Advances Research and Development of Self-Driving Cars https://web.archive.org/web/20230402155238/https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-2c96e8187dea436dba1567a45d3c8c1a 02 April 2023 AP News, Business Wire The IVFC, which took place in Changshu, Suzhou, China in November 2018, attracted a diverse group of teams looking to showcase their latest developments in AV technology. In addition to teams from university research institutes, innovative startup companies and vehicle manufacturers engaged in developing driverless cars participated in the competition. The challenge was hosted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and organized by the Changshu Municipal People’s Government.
Translations
county-level city in Jiangsu
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 常熟 soeng4 suk6
Mandarin: cmn 常熟 Chángshú
References
Further reading
en 2008 Changshu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 726 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/726/ 2
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