Yang-chou
English
Map including YANG-CHOU (HAN-CHIANG) (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Yang²-chou¹.[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: yǎngʹchouʹ, yängʹjōʹ
Proper noun
Yang-chou
- Alternative form of Yangzhou
- 1929, Witter Bynner, transl., The Jade Mountain, Alfred A. Knopf, published 1967, OCLC 904268756, page 262:
- 53. This temple, in Yang-chou, Kiang-su Province, was on a terrace erected by General Wu of the Ch'ên Dynasty and was named after him.
- 1962, Ho, Ping-ti, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Science Editions, LCCN 62-10451, OCLC 1198998194, page 232:
- As the second capital, Nanking maintained a separate smaller central government and the larger and more important Imperial Academy. Many of the officials and officers were so much attracted by the region's wealth and comfort that they chose to settle here permanently. Their descendants benefited frim family influence and often passed higher examinations under their official southern Kiangsu residential registrations. In addition, the reform in the salt administration around the turn of the fifteenth century further attracted many rich merchant groups to Yang-chou, the headquarters of the country's largest salt administration, although many of them chose to reside permanently in other southern Kiangsu cities.
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Translations
Yangzhou — see Yangzhou
References
- Yangzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Yang-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Yang-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary