Chiao-tso
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiao¹-tso⁴.[1]
Proper noun
Chiao-tso
- Alternative form of Jiaozuo
- 1953, Gray, Basil, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London: Faber and Faber, OCLC 905260925, OL 18428005M, page 26:
- Another northern site where large numbers of shards have been found but at present no definite evidence of kilns, is Chiao-tso in Northern Honan, visited by Mr. Orvar Karlbeck in 1934 and in 1943 by Mr. Koyama, who prefers to call it Wu-hsiao, the name of the Department in which it lies.
- 1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 78-15643, OCLC 310585506, page 48:
- The story describes a model coal miner in Chiao-tso, Honan.
- 1983, Garnsey, Wanda; Rewi Alley, “Honan”, in China, Ancient kilns and modern ceramics: A guide to the potteries, Australian National University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 82-074202, OCLC 470647374, pages 20-21:
- Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty. […] Today in the rugged country out of Chiao-tso there are still some scattered kilns near the old pottery town of T’ang-yang-yu making pots for the farmers in the district.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiao-tso.
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Translations
Jiaozuo — see Jiaozuo
References
- Jiaozuo, Wade Giles romanization Chiao-tso, in Encyclopædia Britannica