Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Quzhou.
As a matter of fact we have dated Sung Ch'ü-chou wares as well as Lung-ch'üan ones bearing Ming dates.
1970, Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, Revised edition, volume I, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1512 more examples
It appears that at the prefectural city of Ch'ü-chou eight Foreigners, belonging to the China Inland Mission, were still remaining, awaiting the arrival of three others from up country to depart together;…
1906, China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, Decennial Reports on the Trade, Industries, Etc. of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce, and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinceshttps://books.google.com/books?id=6j9BAQAAMAAJ, →OCLC page 19Meanwhile, a subordinate went north to Kinhwa and Yenchow and made alliances with secret societies in those prefectures. Liu then moved against the prefectural capital in Ch'ü-chou.
1971, Mary Backus Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries Radical Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131
Origin
- Mandarin衢州
- EnglishCh'ü-chou
From Mandarin 衢州 (Qúzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻü²-chou¹.
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