Yangchow

English

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu).

Pronunciation

enPR: yǎngʹchouʹ, yängʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Yangchow

Alternative form of Yangzhou
- 1915, Marshall Broomhall, The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission‎, OCLC 1113769946, page 63:
  With the opening of Yangchow the Mission had struck out in a new direction, for that city was situated on the northern section of the Grand Canal, which in those days, before the sea-route had become popular, was the highroad from the south to Peking and the northern provinces.
- 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career‎, Yale History Press, OCLC 1027538276, page 188:
  The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.
- 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 77-120315, OCLC 805621059, page 19:
  Every aspect of the salt trade required official sanction and the issue of permits. As an illustration, let us consider the marketing of a consignment of salt from the Huai-nan salines to an up-river port such as Hankow or Ta-t'ung. The yard merchant (ch'ang-shang) at the salines had to report his output of salt daily to the salt receiver (ch'ang-kuan), and could carry salt for sale to Shih-erh-wei only on the requisition of the Huai-nan general office (Huai-nan tsung-chü) at Yangchow, transmitted through the salt receiver; when he received this, the had to apply back to Yangchow for a transport permit (ch'ung-yen chih-chao) and to his local branch office (fen-ssu) for a cargo certificate (ts'ang-tan).
- December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 33:
  In a riot half a century earlier, Hudson Taylor had nearly lost his life at Yangchow, once the city of Marco Polo.

单词	Yangchow
释义	Yangchow English Etymology The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 揚州／扬州 (Yángzhōu). Pronunciation enPR: yǎngʹchouʹ, yängʹjōʹ Proper noun Yangchow Alternative form of Yangzhou 1915, Marshall Broomhall, The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission‎, OCLC 1113769946, page 63: With the opening of Yangchow the Mission had struck out in a new direction, for that city was situated on the northern section of the Grand Canal, which in those days, before the sea-route had become popular, was the highroad from the south to Peking and the northern provinces. 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career‎, Yale History Press, OCLC 1027538276, page 188: The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital. 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920‎, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 77-120315, OCLC 805621059, page 19: Every aspect of the salt trade required official sanction and the issue of permits. As an illustration, let us consider the marketing of a consignment of salt from the Huai-nan salines to an up-river port such as Hankow or Ta-t'ung. The yard merchant (ch'ang-shang) at the salines had to report his output of salt daily to the salt receiver (ch'ang-kuan), and could carry salt for sale to Shih-erh-wei only on the requisition of the Huai-nan general office (Huai-nan tsung-chü) at Yangchow, transmitted through the salt receiver; when he received this, the had to apply back to Yangchow for a transport permit (ch'ung-yen chih-chao) and to his local branch office (fen-ssu) for a cargo certificate (ts'ang-tan). December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 33: In a riot half a century earlier, Hudson Taylor had nearly lost his life at Yangchow, once the city of Marco Polo. Further reading Yangchow at OneLook Dictionary Search “Yangchow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
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Yangchow

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